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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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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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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say No! I don't want it right now, that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.
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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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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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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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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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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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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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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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I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
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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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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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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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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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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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At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
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