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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
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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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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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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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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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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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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 need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
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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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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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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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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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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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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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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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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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