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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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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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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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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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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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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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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.
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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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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
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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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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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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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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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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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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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