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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?

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Absurd Writing

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

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Lynda Barry Art Creativity

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

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Power

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Belief Childhood Disillusionment Illusions Lynda Barry

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

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Lynda Barry Evil Hatred Hurt Madness Sadness Teenager

There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight. And when these two come together you get a fairytale, a kind of story with hopelessness in it.I believe there is something in these old stories that does what singing does to words. They have transformational capabilities, in the way melody can transform mood.They can't transform your actual situation, but they can transform your experience of it. 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

Lynda Barry Imagination Sensitive

What year is it in your imagination?

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Lynda Barry Imagination

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

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Imagination

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.

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Adolescence Babies Confidence Cool Dance Dancing Demons Grandma Groove Growing Up Lynda Barry One Hundred Demons Self Love Stupid

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

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Drugs First Sentence Suicide

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Lies Question

Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Home

I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Angst Hell Teenagers

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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Lynda Barry Gross Murder

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

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Love People Dialogue

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 just be depressed all the time.

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Time Walk Ride

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Time Beautiful Fool

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

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Time Down You

Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Light Truth God

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.

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Fun Grow Grow Up

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Racism Tree Eating

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

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Goal Comedy Bucket

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

~ Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry Art School Reading
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