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You'll never call him Fifi again.

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
Dog
Call
Funny
Never

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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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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.
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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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The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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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 used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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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.
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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 wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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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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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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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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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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I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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