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The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
- Lynda Barry
#Eating
#Knowledge
#Tree
#Understand
#You
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
- Lynda Barry
#Bucket
#Comedy
#Goal
#List
#Romantic
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
- Lynda Barry
#Life
#Live
#Looking
#Never
#Time
Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
- Lynda Barry
#Book
#Question
#Something
#Tease
#Trying
I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.
- Lynda Barry
#Doing
#Like
#Make
#Ship
#Try
I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?
- Lynda Barry
#Hate
#Never
#People
#Why
#Work
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 the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it.
- Lynda Barry
#Drawing
#Eye Contact
#Look
#Person
#Talk
When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.
- Lynda Barry
#Draw
#Little
#No Reason
#Reason
#Will
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
#Beautiful
#Fool
#Humor
#Time
#Wonderful
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
#Humor
#Look
#Ride
#Time
#Walk
I tried to be like the richer kids as much as I could because I wanted to live on their streets, at least hang out on their streets and eat their amazing food and walk barefoot on their shag carpets. I became something of a pest in that way, and in general, other people's parents didn't like me.
- Lynda Barry
#Amazing
#Food
#Live
#Me
#Walk
People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.
- Lynda Barry
#Life
#Me
#My Life
#People
#Whatever
'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.
- Lynda Barry
#Children
#Good Times
#Good
#Innocence
Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.
- Lynda Barry
#Class
#Easiest
#Race
#Stupid
#Very
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 gay? I knew I was lucky.
- Lynda Barry
#Gay
#I Am
#Lucky
#Man
#Who
Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'
- Lynda Barry
#Barbie
#Go
#Plan
#Play
#Ready
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
- Lynda Barry
#Down
#Love
#Time
#Track
#Will
I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
- Lynda Barry
#Inspirational
#Love
#Matter
#People
#Way
I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.
- Lynda Barry
#I Think
#Immune
#System
#Think
#Transit
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
- Lynda Barry
#Funny
#Need
#People
#Think
#Up
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
- Lynda Barry
#Exploding
#Love Is
#Love
#Smoke
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
- Lynda Barry
#Create
#Escape
#Fantasy
#Reality
#World
I am about as detailed as a shadow.
- Lynda Barry
#About
#Am
#Detailed
#I Am
#Shadow
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