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You'll never call him Fifi again.

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
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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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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
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Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
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There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.
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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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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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But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
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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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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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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 go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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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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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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I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
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Love will make a way out of no way
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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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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When an attractive but ALOOF (cool) man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our underpants. There are thousands of scientific concepts as to why this is so, and yes, yes, it's very sick but none of this helps.
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