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but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.
Lynda Barry
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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
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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 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 live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
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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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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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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
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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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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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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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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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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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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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