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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
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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 wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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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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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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But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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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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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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These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.
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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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Love will make a way out of no way
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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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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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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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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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