Harvey Pekar Quotes

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Harvey Pekar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010

Topics

MyselfPeopleThinkSituationWant

It's funny, I used to do a character that was just a baby - just an adult baby. I would get up onstage and complain about adult stuff, but as a baby. I was in a diaper, and I would require hugs from the audience and reassurance and stuff.

John Gemberling

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All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

John H. Johnson

WorthwhileDisappointmentsTimes

I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney.

Andy Cohen

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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

MyselfAimOthersWriteProjectOwn

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Johnny Ball

LifeWorkAgeGreatWorthYou

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

Sonia Gandhi

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Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

Stafford Cripps

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I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

Rita Dove

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As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.

Mindy Kaling

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I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

Demetri Martin

FruitHellSomeoneYouAppleNice

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

Bryant H. McGill

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