Lynda Barry Quotes

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

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  Love, Valentines Day, Heartbreak

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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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  Reality, World, Able

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• No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

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  Business, Matter, Unexpected

  Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

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  Art, Thinking, People

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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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  Art, Children, Play

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• When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

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  Book, Hands, Alive

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• What year is it in your imagination?

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  Years, Imagination

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• You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

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  Reason, Spend Time, Willing

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• The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.

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  Baby, Stupid, Grandma

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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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  Beautiful, Fool, Helping

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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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  Exercise, Mind, Diaries

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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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  Growing Up, Fun, Mixing

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• If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.

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  Writing, Fate, Order

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• are memories pictures or the secret doorway?

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  Memories, Secret, Doorways

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• Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

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  Dream, Art, Beer

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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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  Jesus, Praying

  Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

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  Love, Funny Valentines Day, Funny Love

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• If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

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  Love Is, Sure Love, Track

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• Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.

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  Hands, Intuition, Watches

  Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Dark, Constant, I Can

  The Onion Interview, www.avclub.com. December 8, 1999.

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• The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

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  People, Reason

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Men, Shoes, Sick

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• You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?

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  Writing, Names, Missing

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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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  Ink, World, Paper

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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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  Cartoon, Would Be, Behind My Back

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