Lynda Barry Quotes

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• If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
• I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
• 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…
• Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
• I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
• If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
• 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…
• I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
• In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
• Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
• The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
• 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…
• For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
• 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.
• I am about as detailed as a shadow.
• 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…
• I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
• I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
• I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.
• 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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