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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 69
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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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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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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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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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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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 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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