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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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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 need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
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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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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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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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You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
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Love will make a way out of no way
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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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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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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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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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I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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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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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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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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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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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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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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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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