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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
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I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?
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Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.
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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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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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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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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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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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When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go I need to write a book. What's a good question? It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.
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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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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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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say No! I don't want it right now, that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.
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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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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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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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