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28 quotes by Berkeley Breathed

Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (/ˈbrɛðɨd/ BRETH-əd; born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip that dealt with sociopolitical issues as understood by fanciful characters (e.g., Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and through humorous analogies. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987.
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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child... →

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Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

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I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

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I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next... →

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I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me... →

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I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the... →

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If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.

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I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a... →

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Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

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And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

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