“He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean...”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“So what have you guys been up to?”
“Nothing, worshipping Satan.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“God, it drives me crazy when I know exactly what I want and I can't find it anywhere! It's like does anybody want my money!? I mean what the fuck!?”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“This is the Mona Lisa of bad diners.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Dear Josh, we stopped by to fuck you but you didn't answer the door. Therefore you are gay.
Sincerely, Tiffany and Amber.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
“You were right, everybody hates my new car. Becky said it was a goth dorkmobile.”
― Daniel Clowes, quote from Ghost World
Daniel Clowes
Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date April 14, 1961
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“When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.”
― Jaroslav Hašek, quote from The Good Soldier Švejk
“His words sliced through my heart, cutting it into little pathetic pieces.”
― Maria V. Snyder, quote from Inside Out
“His Greatness the King Pteppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun, Guardian of the Secret Knowledge, Lord of the Horizon, Keeper of the Way, the Flail of Mercy, the High Born One, the Never Dying King.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Pyramids
“George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: “Yes, this will do”. Who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving… me, and must be punished for it. George and Martha… Sad, sad, sad.”
― Edward Albee, quote from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
“Now, I could go on about mommy didn’t love me and daddy hit me, but who doesn’t have a story, right?” I asked. “There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don’t carry weight anymore.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
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