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1 " Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug. "
― Dash Shaw , BodyWorld
2 " Eventually our whole world, every culture, will explode and we'll all just be fucking cosmic dust. We'll all dissipate. We'll all be nothing and everything. What's more spiritual than that? "
― Dash Shaw
3 " Dad believes that negative criticism is inherently more truthful and constructive than positive criticism. He also believes that every "No" spoken gives a future "Yes" more power and credibility. He's a master at finding the tone, pitch, and demeanor to say "Yes" so that it obviously means a "No." It's an art form. There are a million dead "No"s in that monstrous, distant, future "Yes." Even though it's a million miles away, I can always see it from where I am. "
― Dash Shaw , Doctors
4 " Money comes from working hard" I've come to believe is just a line rich people tell themselves to feel better. Lots of people work hard and get nothing. It's just a myth: "Come to America, work hard, get rich", like dying and going to heaven. "
5 " Have you ever had a conversation with someone and you secretly promised yourself you'd keep it completely about the other person, never about yourself? "
6 " See? Verti gets it... Sometimes being a fan means demanding the work be of a certain quality level. "
― Dash Shaw , Cosplayers 2: Tezukon
7 " Phoenix." Tezuka's unfinished masterpiece. "Phoenix" is the Christ of manga's ode to change... Resurrection... Since I am such a noted manga scholar, you might think my life has always been a roaring success... But the truth is that I'm forever attempting to be reborn out of the flames of my own misery and painfully obvious worthlessness. "
8 " I actually believe games are important. The whole world thinks the only true, real reward is getting paid. But games know the only real reward is just feeling good. Enjoying yourself. Play is for serious. "
― Dash Shaw , Cosplayers #1
9 " I used to get t-shirts solely based on what was printed on the shirt. If I liked the Secret of Mana game, I bought a Secret of Mana t-shirt. Then one day my mom said: "Think about the fit. The fit. The fit is key." And my whole life changed. "
10 " It's common for the dying to feed back their last moments in their own way... People seem to create the afterlife they want, or feel they deserve, before it fades to black. "
11 " The ancient Egyptian book of the dead is a series of spells to guide you through your afterlife. If you were in the upper class, everything was arranged so that you'd be buried with the tools necessary to avoid being banished to "nonexistence," (what we call the eventual "fade to black.") But if your pass the "weighing of the heart" ritual and make it to the "two fields," you'll lead an idyllic, "heaven"-like afterlife. . . So, in the end, rich people become like their money. . . When you spend money, it doesn't die. . . it just travels. "
12 " I love anime, but anime makes it so hard... It's like a boy I knew. "I love you, so why do you have to be so dumb?" Hahaha. "
13 " That's what my penis is like: a beautiful, thorny rose. "
14 " Every person creates the afterlife they feel they deserve. . . Whole cultures do the same thing. They write their own afterlife stories, specific to their culture's desires and values. . . But eventually your consciousness sputters out. You dissipate. You fade to black. Just like how eventually our whole world, every culture, will explode and we'll all just be fucking cosmic dust. We'll all dissipate. We'll all be nothing and everything. What's more spiritual than that? "
15 " ...a única coisa que é você é o seu espírito. "
― Dash Shaw , Bottomless Belly Button
