Lynda Barry Quotes - Page 2

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• something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.

  Lynda Barry

  Wall, Real, Cat

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• In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.

  Lynda Barry

  Hate, Swear To God, Topics

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• These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.

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  High Heels, Guy, Confusing

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• I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.

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  Loud, Laughed

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• The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

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  Couple, School, Kids

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• We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

  Lynda Barry

  Believe, Reality, Able

  Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com. February 12, 2016.

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

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  Eye, Minutes

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• The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?

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  Reflection, People, Vampire

  "Comic artist wrestles with 'Demons' in new book" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 31, 2002.

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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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  Thrill, Kind, Letterman

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• I remember my comic strips being called "new wave." It bugged me.

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  Remember, Wave, Comic

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

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• I am about as detailed as a shadow.

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  Shadow

  Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Names, Awful, Quiet

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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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  Class, Students, Thrown

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• You may be a lady but you are still the man!

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  Men, May, Stills

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• The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music.

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  Song, Hate, Thinking

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• My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

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  Writing, Goal, Buckets

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

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  Past, Ideas, Made

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• Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

  Lynda Barry

  Drug, Blame, Dear

  “McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s John Warner on the funniest book narrators” by Noah Cruickshank, www.avclub.com. March 4, 2014.

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• A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

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  Men, Hot, Looks

  Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Sleep, Cartoon, Littles

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• Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

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  Children, Wall, Kids

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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