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Roz Chast

  • “I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start.”

    • Roz Chast,
    • in The New York Times ()

  • “Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Later Years: The Missing House Keys, The Mystery of the Eight Pounds, The Secret of the Computer.”

  • “A nursery rhyme from the American Psychiatric Society: Monday's kid is passive-aggressive / Tuesday's kid is compulsive-obsessive / Wednesday's kid is hypochondriacal / Thursday's kid is just plain maniacal / Friday's kid is anal-retentive / Saturday's kid is too non-attentive / But the kid who's born on the Sabbath day / defies diagnosis in every way.”

Roz Chast, U.S. cartoonist, writer

(1954)

Full name: Rosalind Chast.