Davy Rothbart Quotes

• 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.

  Davy Rothbart

  Keys, One Direction, Way

  Davy Rothbart (2012). “My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays”, p.195, Macmillan

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• But in the end, I suppose, we only have 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.

  Davy Rothbart

  Taken, Ends, Plans

  Davy Rothbart (2012). “My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays”, p.333, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• 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.

  Davy Rothbart

  Zines, People, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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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  Focus, Trying, Being There

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

  Davy Rothbart

  Stories, Mail, Encounters

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

  Davy Rothbart

  Years, Parent, Married

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• 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.

  Davy Rothbart

  Advice, Asking, Email

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Davy Rothbart

  Advice, Given

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• 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.

  Davy Rothbart

  Writing, School, Night

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

  Davy Rothbart

  Writing, Way, Deadline

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• I have a black Grandma and white Grandma. My white Grandma lives in Fort Lauderdale, paints, and teaches bridge. She's wonderful. My black Grandma, equally wonderful, is my neighbor across the street, Bobbie, who's always insisted that I call her Grandma, and honestly, over the years she's become a real Grandma to me.

  Davy Rothbart

  Real, Grandma, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Davy Rothbart

  Trying, Bags, Huffing

  Source: therumpus.net

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