Davy Rothbart Quotes

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

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• Emotion
• Brand
• Encounters

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

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• Advice
• Given
• Asked

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.

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• Taken
• Always
• Road

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

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• Years
• Parent
• Married

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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• People
• Want
• Sometimes

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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• Writing
• School
• Computer

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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• Universe
• Happens
• Going

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
• Audience
• Persons

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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• Kind
• Advice
• Stranger

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

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• Writing
• Way
• Deadline