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  • The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.

  • 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

    Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
  • I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

  • 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.

  • what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?

  • 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.

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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.

    Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
  • What year is it in your imagination?

  • 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.

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

  • Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

  • Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

  • 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.

  • You'll never call him Fifi again.

  • When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

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  • Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it!

  • 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.

  • What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise and rise and rise through the veins leading up to the heart and then the needle would STAB HER IN THE HEART and Roberta would DIE and it would be VERY PAINFUL this according to nurse mother a medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak... The mother shouted that she knew several people who died from the Rising Stab of the Unfelt Needle or RSUN she has seen cases of it many times and not ONE PERSON HAS SURVIVED IT.

    Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
  • In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

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

  • If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

  • 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.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

    “McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s John Warner on the funniest book narrators” by Noah Cruickshank, www.avclub.com. March 4, 2014.
  • Love will make a way out of no way

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

    The Onion Interview, www.avclub.com. December 8, 1999.
  • At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

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