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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
Jokes
Always
Things
Life
Joke
Happenings
Happening

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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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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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You'll never call him Fifi again.
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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 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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These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.
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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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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'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 need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
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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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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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Love will make a way out of no way
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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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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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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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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 live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
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