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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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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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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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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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