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I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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When an attractive but ALOOF (cool) man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our underpants. There are thousands of scientific concepts as to why this is so, and yes, yes, it's very sick but none of this helps.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
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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 live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
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This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.
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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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Love will make a way out of no way
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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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When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?
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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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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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But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
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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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