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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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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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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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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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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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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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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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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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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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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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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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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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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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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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But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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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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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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