Lynda Barry Quotes

• People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

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• Love will make a way out of no way.

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• Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

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• In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

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• If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

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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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• If I didn’t try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

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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 wasn’t afraid to be laughed at or be loud.

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• I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

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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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• 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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• 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 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 go to work the minute I open my eyes.

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• I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

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• I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn’t married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn’t gay? I knew I was lucky.

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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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• Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It’s exhilarating, but after a while it wasn’t the kind of thrill I enjoyed.

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• Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

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Birth:	2nd January, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Cartoonist

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Births

• 1947 - Samuel Schmid
• 1967 - Robert Sylvester Kelly
• 1934 - Alexandra Ripley
• 921 - Leonardo Sciascia

Deaths

• 1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford
• 1980 - Joshua Abraham Norton
• 1976 - Zhou Enlai
• 1997 - Melvin Calvin