“Reality is reality. It is the way things are, not the way you want them to be in your head.”

— Dave Sim

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebus/message/108250
Dave Sim's Collected Letters Volume 2 (2007)

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Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus 1956

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