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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
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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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There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.
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but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.
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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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I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
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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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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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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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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 know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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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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A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.
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Love will make a way out of no way
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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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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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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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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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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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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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