Lynn Johnston Quotes

• Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn’t know how to raise a child. And I wasn’t close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn’t want a baby.

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• When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She’s happy, she’s thriving, she’s full of self-confidence. I tell her she’s beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

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• After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.

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• You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a… very brutal disciplinarian.

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• You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

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• The most profound statements are often said in silence.

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• That’s what my mother did. And my father was the first person she’d met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.

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• Sure, I’ve had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don’t get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don’t get to put them in the paper like I do.

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• People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions – board games, recipes… we never stopped inventing.

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• Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

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• No matter how old you are, there’s always something good to look forward to.

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• My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

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• My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created… what power that was!

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• It’s taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

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• In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you’ve achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

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• If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about s*x, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father’s matches to burn the paper.

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• I’ve had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It’s part of the novel, and a novel isn’t interesting if it doesn’t have some good and bad. And you don’t know what good is if bad hasn’t been a part of your life.

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• I’ve always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It’s up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

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• I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

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• I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don’t like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

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Lynn Johnston (28)

Birth:	28th May, 1947
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Cartoonist

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