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With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted to be someone who could sell a lot of books.
Scott McClanahan
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Scott McClanahan
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 24
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I don't think anybody does anything anymore without commenting on why they're doing it or making fun of it as they're doing it.
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New York exists for me. Not me for it.
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Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.
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I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people.
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There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, I don't want to get shot.
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I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.
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I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.
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I'm shocked and surprised by people that are shocked and surprised that certain things in life are made up or not as true as you might believe them to be.
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Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.
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Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.
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I think all good art is outsider art.
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You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.
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This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.
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I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.
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The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.
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He Stopped Loving Her Today a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of the best George Jones anecdotes I've ever read, like cocaine psychosis causing this personality called the Duck.
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There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.
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Most of the answers to the world could be answered with our bodies.
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I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.
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Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.
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