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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
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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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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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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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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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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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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 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 remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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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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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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At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
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You'll never call him Fifi again.
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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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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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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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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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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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