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Lynda Barry

"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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Vera Miles

"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."

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Vera Miles

"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."

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Vera Miles

"The best things to hold on to are the memories of friendship and love."

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Vera Miles

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

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"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."

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"I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance."

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Vera Miles

"Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul."

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"They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked."

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"Sometimes you win friends, sometimes you lose friends. Both can help you to grow faster."

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"One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies."

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Lynda Barry
"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?"

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Lynda Barry
"I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer."

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Lynda Barry
"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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Lynda Barry
"People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life."

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Lynda Barry
"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."

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

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Lynda Barry
"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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Lynda Barry
"There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work."

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Lynda Barry
"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."

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Lynda Barry
"I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth."

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