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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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Happening
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Life

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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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You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
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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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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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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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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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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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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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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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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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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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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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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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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 do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.
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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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