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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.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
Tells
Somebody
Peeling
Left
Bottle
Art
Label
Dream
Bottles
Sometimes
Labels
Think
Slowly
Thinking
Beer

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