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I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship’s rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Judd Apatow
But that’s the funny thing about this work: You can do something you really like and someone else just looks at it and says, “I need to end this today.”
Nico Walker • Daily Review | Readwise
I hear one of them say something that I can’t quite make out but sounds like “she’s dying” or “she’s dead.” My dad howls, “She was my favorite daughter.” I enjoy that for a moment. I have two sisters. I can’t wait to tell them. I’d always suspected it. Then my mother wails, “Just like the cat!” Because our cat Winkels had recently met an untimely
... See moreSarah Wynn-Williams • Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
a hamburger the size of a Susan B. Anthony dollar. All day long I installed doorknobs. It was all right.
David Sedaris • Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
‘I’m afraid, Nora’ – he paused for a moment, about the time it takes to lift an axe into the air – ‘I’m going to have to let you go.’
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
“I am afraid to guess what the complaint could be or how it could have originated. I assure you that I have been the very soul of cleanliness. My intimate habits are above reproach. Carrying no social diseases, I don’t see what I could possibly transmit to your hot dogs that they do not already have. Look at these fingernails.”
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
SARAH SILVERMAN (2014) I’ve known Sarah Silverman since she moved to California to do standup when she was twenty-one years old. Back then, she was the young, hilarious girl who was from the same town in New Hampshire as my friend and roommate, Adam Sandler. That always seemed so weird to me, the idea that two brilliantly funny people could come
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