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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.
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These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.
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gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.
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You'll never call him Fifi again.
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Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it!
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The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.
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Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
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I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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