“Reality is reality. It is the way things are, not the way you want them to be in your head.”
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebus/message/108250
Dave Sim's Collected Letters Volume 2 (2007)
Dave Sim: 22 citations0 J'aime
Dave Sim: Citations en anglais
Usually quoted with "Anything" unspaced (as in the title p. 7), sometimes quoted spaced (as in the art p. 273, as<!--variant requoted in full to be googlable too--> "Any<!--spaced--> <!--here-->thing done for the first time unleashes a demon.") because the cover art http://www.comics.org/issue/175338/ piles "Any" and "thing" (though they are joined, the leg of the "y" being also the bar of the "t").<br>Compare to a quote misattributed to Emily Dickinson: "Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon." (origin and date unknown, also attributed to Dave Sim<!-- https://books.google.com/books?id=q4D2Xz5N3xkC&pg=PA66 -->) <br class="br">Church & State volume I (1987)
Source: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), p. 21
“Because I say what is empirically true: nothing exists except God, I am deemed to be insane.”
ibid, p. 28
Following Cerebus (2004-)
“I'd rather live in the gutter embracing reality than live like a king embracing unreality.”
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebus/message/104999
“I'd rather take a major financial hit being honest than get rich by lying.”
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebus/message/105562
“Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy…”
Source: Church & State volume I (1987), p. 296
http://www.cerebusfangirl.com/artists/tangent1.php
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebus/message/100634
“[A]n attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth.”
No. 11, p. 27
Following Cerebus (2004-)
Source: Melmoth (1991), p. 41
Source: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), p. 20
“No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully.”
Source: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), pp. 50-51
http://cerebusfangirl.com/artists/0306talk.php
“Get out of your own way. (p.28)”
Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997)
Source: Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing (1997), p. 21
“Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.”
Cover and title of Cerebus #65, August 1984, collected in Church & State I, p. 7 and 273 <br class="br">Usually quoted with "Anything" unspaced (as in the title p. 7), sometimes quoted spaced (as in the art p. 273, as "Any thing done for the first time unleashes a demon.") because the cover art http://www.comics.org/issue/175338/ piles "Any" and "thing" (though they are joined, the leg of the "y" being also the bar of the "t"). <br class="br">Compare to a quote misattributed to Emily Dickinson: "Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon." (origin and date unknown, also attributed to Dave Sim) <br class="br">Church & State volume I (1987)