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Lynda Barry

"I go to work the minute I open my eyes."

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Akiroq Brost

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

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Akiroq Brost

"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."

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Akiroq Brost

"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."

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Akiroq Brost

"Speaking about work isn't working."

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"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."

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Akiroq Brost

"I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it."

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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."

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Akiroq Brost

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

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"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

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"The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!"

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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."

Friendship

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Lynda Barry
"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."

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

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
"In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke."

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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 go to work the minute I open my eyes."

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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 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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Lynda Barry
"I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up."

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