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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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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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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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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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There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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You'll never call him Fifi again.
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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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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 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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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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but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.
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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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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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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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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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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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