Too Busy Thinking About My Comics II
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“They sicken of the calm, who know the storm.”
Dorothy Parker
(Panels by Emma Rios, Mark Waid et al, from The Amazing Spider-Man #677)
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“We have a saying in the movement that we don’t trust anybody over 30.”
Jack Weinberg, San Francisco Chronicle, 1964
(Panels by Gil Kane, Stan Lee, John Romita et al, from Amazing Spider-Man #96, 1971)
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“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.”
Robert Browning
(Page by Gil Kane, Stan Lee, Frank Giacoia et al, from Amazing Spider-Man #98, 1971)
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“I don’t preach patience to you but cynicism; it is the most comforting of philosophies. You will get over your present difficulties, only to run into something worse, and so on until the last sad scene. Make up your mind to it - and then make the best of it. That is, do the best that you can within the limits of your chance.”
H L Mencken
(Page by John Romita, Stan Lee et al, from Spider-Man #50, 1967)
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“Jupiter from on high laughs at lover’s perjuries.”
Ovid
(Page by Paul Ryan, Vince Colletta,David Michelinie, Jim Shooter,from Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21, 1987)
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“The world of the happy is quite another than the world of the unhappy.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
(Panel by Steve Ditko, Stan Lee, et al, from The Amazing Spider-Man #30, 1965)
