Davy Rothbart Quotes

#1. Marry her right away. Tomorrow, if you want. You don't know how much time you get with someone, so you might as well start right away.

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#2. The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

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#3. Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.

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#4. I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.

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#5. The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

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#6. In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

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#7. My dashed hopes putt-putted bravely to life once more, like a bug that gets stomped on but keeps pulling itself across the floor.

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#8. There's no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

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#9. I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.

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#10. My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.

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#11. I often wished that I could split myself a hundred ways and live a hundred separate lives [ ... ]. But in the end, I supposed, we only had one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

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#12. That's how the universe worked at times: little things - the tiniest things - could catapult you toward a good life, but you had to be open and you had to be paying attention. Love wasn't purely destined, it relied on hiccups of fate - Aimee Mann, someone else's trip to Peru, a black dog.

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#13. On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

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#14. I started playing that game I play when I'm feeling lonely, the one where I review all of my prior relationships, marveling that so many sweet, smart, pretty girls have come into my life and that I've found a way to fuck things up with every one of them.

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#15. I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.

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