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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
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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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You'll never call him Fifi again.
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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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Love will make a way out of no way
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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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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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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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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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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 am about as detailed as a shadow.
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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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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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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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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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Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
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This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.
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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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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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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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