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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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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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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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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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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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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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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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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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At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
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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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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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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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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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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 strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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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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I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
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