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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
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University Teacher
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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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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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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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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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 go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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Love will make a way out of no way
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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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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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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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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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At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
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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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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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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 strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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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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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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