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I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.
~ Roz Chast
Alphabet
Asleep
Call
Fall
Game
Insomnia
Play
Sometimes
Suffer
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I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they're verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they're happening.
~ Roz Chast
Habit
Happening
Head
I Think
Just
Know
Making
Note
Notes
Pictorial
Taking
Things
Think
Verbal
Whatever
Whether
You
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I think of my drawing style like handwriting: it's a mix of whatever handwriting you're born with, plus bits and pieces you've pilfered from other people around you.
~ Roz Chast
Around
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Born
Drawing
Handwriting
I Think
Like
Mix
Other
People
Pieces
Plus
Style
Think
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You
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I think that children's books should be censored not for references to sex but for references to diseases. I mean, who didn't think after reading 'Madeline' that they were going to get appendicitis?
~ Roz Chast
After
Books
Censored
Children
Diseases
Get
Going
I Think
Mean
Reading
References
Sex
Should
Think
Were
Who
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I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.
~ Roz Chast
Die
Go
Going
I Think
Just
Kind
Know
Like
Moving
Parents
Place
Same
Sidewalk
Them
Think
Watching
You
Your
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I think, especially with my parents, I wanted to remember who they were. I wanted to remember all of it. I didn't want to purge myself of it. I wanted to remember it.
~ Roz Chast
I Think
Myself
Parents
Purge
Remember
Think
Want
Wanted
Were
Who
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I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up.
~ Roz Chast
About
Bit
Cartoons
Dreamed
Figures
I Think
Kind
Little
Little Bit
Made
My Own
Other
Own
Parents
People
Read
Taken
Think
Up
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I used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles.
~ Roz Chast
Articles
Back
Cartoons
First
Go
Magazine
Read
Then
Think
Through
Used
Within
You
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I'm sure that my parents' behavior has entered my work, I'm sorry to say. I don't think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps.
~ Roz Chast
Behavior
Childhood
Difficult
Entered
Funny
Helps
Need
Parents
Say
Sorry
Sure
Think
Work
You
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In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.
~ Roz Chast
Brooklyn
Catch
Feel
Holding
People
Sidewalk
Up
Wheel
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It cracks me up to see these ads for TV - for Depends or for glue for your dentures. The people in them look 55 with a hint of gray. Where are the people who are falling apart? We don't see that.
~ Roz Chast
Ads
Apart
Cracks
Depends
Falling
Glue
Gray
Hint
Look
Me
People
See
Them
TV
Up
Where
Who
Your
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It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn't speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural.
~ Roz Chast
Closely
Deeply
Draw
Felt
Her
Interesting
Last
Me
Months
Mother
Much
Natural
Observe
She
Speaking
Those
Very
Way
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It's like a 'chicken or the egg' thing. We're all part of the culture. We're reflecting it; we're changing it. So, yeah, I think culture is always changing.
~ Roz Chast
Always
Changing
Chicken
Culture
Egg
I Think
Like
Part
Reflecting
Thing
Think
Yeah
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I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.
~ Roz Chast
Along
Always
Artist
Change
Go
Hook
How
Learn
Me
Named
Nice
Nice Thing
Taught
Thing
Wanted
Wonderful
You
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I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.
~ Roz Chast
Alive
Analyzing
Being
Cartoons
Death
Done
Great
Grim
Guess
Illness
Jokes
Lot
Maybe
Obituaries
Only
Relief
Terror
Things
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I've had people ask me if it would have been easier to take care of your parents if you had siblings, and I think it's 50/50. I know people who have siblings, and there is a lot of acrimony because somebody always feels that they are doing more than the other person.
~ Roz Chast
Always
Ask
Because
Been
Care
Doing
Easier
Feels
Had
I Think
Know
Lot
Me
More
Other
Parents
People
Person
Sibling
Somebody
Take
Take Care
Than
Think
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Would
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My father was in terrible pain towards the end because of his bed sores, and he did go into hospice, and I think that was better in some ways. You know, I think his death was peaceful, and it was all right. He was just in terrible pain.
~ Roz Chast
Because
Bed
Better
Death
Did
End
Father
Go
He
His
I Think
Just
Know
Pain
Peaceful
Right
Some
Terrible
Think
Towards
Ways
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My kids always joked that I spent more time cooking the birds' food than I have cooking for them. And it's probably true.
~ Roz Chast
Always
Birds
Cooking
Food
Kids
More
Spent
Than
Them
Time
True
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My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.
~ Roz Chast
Boring
Brains
Come
Eyes
Going
Life
Melt
My Life
Out
Your
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My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.
~ Roz Chast
Disgusting
Grade
Lives
Made
Mitt
Mother
Old
Oven
Parents
Partly
Point
Saved
Seventh
Skirt
Stained
Together
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