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What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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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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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 am about as detailed as a shadow.
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go I need to write a book. What's a good question? It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.
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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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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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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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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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At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.
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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
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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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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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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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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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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 need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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