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If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

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Tucker Max
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: September 27
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My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
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If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.
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Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.
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I'm never going to be Tolstoy.
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Failure instructs, failure improves. Failure shouldn't deter you.
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Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.
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Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.
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