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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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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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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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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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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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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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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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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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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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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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