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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
Crazy
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Kids
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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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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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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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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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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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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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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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But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
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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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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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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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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.
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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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Love will make a way out of no way
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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