Quotes by Roz Chast

Roz Chast

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don’t think your kids are going to want it, don’t take it.

Advice

Kids

Thinking

As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your parents’ closet, only this time there’s no chance of getting in trouble, so you don’t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.

Dust

Kids

Memories

Childhood – that was not my favorite time in my life.

Childhood

My Favorite

Even under the best of circumstances – in twenty-first century America at least – caring for elderly parents ain’t no place for sissies.

America

Caring

Elderly

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

Cabinets

Fingerprints

Long

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

Cartoon

Littles

Reason

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

Bored

Kids

Superhero

I gave up on ever trying to get ‘my way.’ I barely knew it existed.

Gave Up

Trying

Way

I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the “work” is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.

Art

Painting

School

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

Cartoon

Form

Plasticity

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Advice

America

Art

Bed

Black

Book

Bored

Brain

Cabinets

Care

Caring

Cartoon

Childhood

Cute

Dust

Elderly

Eye

Father

Fighting

Fingerprints

Form

Gave Up

Hands

Kids

Laughing

Life Is

Littles

Long

Mean

Memories

Mental Health

Mother

My Favorite

Nerd

Nursing

Painting

Parent

Past

People

Phobia

Plasticity

Praying

Real

Reason

School

Selfishness

Shopping

Superhero

Thinking

Tiny

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Quotes by Roz Chast

Roz Chast

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don’t think your kids are going to want it, don’t take it.

Childhood – that was not my favorite time in my life.

Even under the best of circumstances – in twenty-first century America at least – caring for elderly parents ain’t no place for sissies.

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

I gave up on ever trying to get ‘my way.’ I barely knew it existed.

I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the “work” is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

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