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64 quotes by Lynda Barry

Lynda Jean Barry (born January 2, 1956) is an American cartoonist and author. Barry is best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. She garnered attention with her 1988 illustrated novel The Good Times are Killing Me, about an interracial friendship between two young girls, which was made into a play. Her second illustrated novel Cruddy appeared in 1999. Three years later she published One! Hundred! Demons!, a graphic novel she...
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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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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

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In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at... →

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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

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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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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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'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

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I am about as detailed as a shadow.

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Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

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It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and... →

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When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after'... →

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The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your... →

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