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You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
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University Teacher
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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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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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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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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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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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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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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
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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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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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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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