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14 quotes by Bil Keane

William Aloysius Keane (October 5, 1922 – November 8, 2011), better known as Bil Keane, was an American cartoonist most notable for his work on the long-running newspaper comic The Family Circus. It began in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane.
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Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

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A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

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Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

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I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

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I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of... →

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Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,'... →

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When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing... →

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I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's... →

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I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is... →

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I don't just try to be funny.

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I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

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