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Harvey Pekar Quotes

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Home Live Me Easy Go Write

If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Science Culture World Engineering

I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.

Good Fire Government Believe Feet

Over the years, I've found myself wishing sometimes my angel would show up. I could use a little uplift, a little reminder.

Myself Angel Sometimes Over Up Show

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

School You Drama London Years Gone

I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

Girl Mirror Look Never See Going

I know how I like my food. I like it spicy, salty, sticky, crunchy, juicy, oozy - basically any dish you know and love, jacked up to a bordering-on-socially-unacceptable amount of flavor.

Love Food You Know Spicy Salty

I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.

Clementa C. Pinckney

Good Live Faith Hope Job Me

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

William S. Burroughs

Wisdom Experience Thinking Enough

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

William Hazlitt

Man Die Young Young Man Thinks He

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

Death Think Australia Project Nation

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

Wife Think Will Remembered Here Who

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.

War Strong Worth Movement Vietnam

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