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Do your work. Do the things you love. Don’t ask permission. The more work you make in the world, the more likely someone will ask you to do some new thing, some bigger thing, or at least some interesting thing. And when they ask, say yes.
“I think that may be the highest purpose of any work of art, to inspire someone else to save themselves through art. Creating creates creators.”
― Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
― Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
“Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only two kinds of people in the world: the sick and the not sick. If you are not sick, shut up and help. Twenty-five years later, I still cannot reject this as an inaccurate worldview.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“Then he closed his eyes and said grace silently. I noticed that any meal set before Andy was given respect. Dinners in diners--frozen shrimp with canned tomato sauce, canned vegetables, salads made with the worst part of the lettuce. And then chocolate and vanilla ice cream for dessert. "I'll pay extra for it if I have to," Andy said to the waitress.”
― Was This Man a Genius?: Talks With Andy Kaufman
― Was This Man a Genius?: Talks With Andy Kaufman
“I loved my country, but I could not respect it, could not, upon my soul, be reconciled to my country as it was. And I loved my work, had great respect for the craft which I was compelled to study, and wanted it to have some human use. It was beginning to be clear to me that these two loves might, never, in my life, be reconciled: no man can serve two masters.”
― The Devil Finds Work: Essays
― The Devil Finds Work: Essays
“A story is impelled by the necessity to reveal: the aim of the story is revelation, which means that a story can have nothing—at least not deliberately—to hide. This also means that a story resolves nothing. The resolution of a story must occur in us, with what we make of the questions with which the story leaves us. A plot, on the other hand, must come to a resolution, prove a point: a plot must answer all the questions which it pretends to pose.”
― The Devil Finds Work: Essays
― The Devil Finds Work: Essays
Andy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Andy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
408 books
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163 friends
682 books
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71 friends
1,153 books
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153 friends
299 books
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2,363 friends
2,297 books
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437 friends
2,558 books
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152 friends
1,930 books
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6,297 friends
1,209 books
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67 friends
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