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What It Is
Lynda Barry
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“What year is it in your imagination?”
“The thing I call ‘my mind’ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn’t really know its tenants.”
“what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?”
“At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.”
“What is it? The ordinary is EXTRAORDINARY. The ordinary is extraordinary. The ordinary is the thing we want back when someone we love dies. When someone dies or leaves or falls out of love with us. We call it "little things". We say, "it's the little things I miss most." The ordinary things. It's the little thing that brings them back to us unexpectedly. We say "reminds us" but it is more than reminding-it's a conflagration-it's an inundation-Both fire and flood is memory. It's spark and breach so ordinary we do not question it. The atom split. The little thing.”
“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.”
“What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.”
“i believe [images] are the soul's immune system and transit system.”
“are memories pictures or the secret doorway?”
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Book Keywords:
sensitive, imagination