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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.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
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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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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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But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
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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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I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?
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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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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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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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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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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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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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You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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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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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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