Quotes by Scott Mcclanahan - Page 1

I think all good art is outsider art.
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New York exists for me. Not me for it.
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We like something because someone else liked it.
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I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.
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People
Personality
Thinking
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Most of the answers to the world could be answered with our bodies.
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Answers
Body
World
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Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.
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Kids
Rome
Way
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I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.
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Appendix
Brain
One Day
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Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.
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People
Stories
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The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?
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Exploitation
Whole
World
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Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.
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Modern
Realizing
World
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Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.
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Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.
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Long
Skirts
Writing
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There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.
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People
Trying
Way
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We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.
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Artist
Levels
Writing
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I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.
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Ballerina
People
Want
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I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.
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Just Realized
Looks
Painting
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I don't think anybody does anything anymore without commenting on why they're doing it or making fun of it as they're doing it.
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Doe
Fun
Thinking
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The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.
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Body
Hate
Reason Why
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You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.
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Girl
Mom
Song
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Everybody is so sure about everything these days. Just look at your horrible Facebook feed on the most recent tragedy that people are commenting on.
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Looks
People
Tragedy
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There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."
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Dad
Brother
Mother
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I'm shocked and surprised by people that are shocked and surprised that certain things in life are made up or not as true as you might believe them to be.
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Believe
People
Things In Life
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With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted to be someone who could sell a lot of books.
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Book
Sound
Thinking
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It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.
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Musician
People
Writing
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The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.
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Apocalypse
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Kind
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It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.
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Anecdotes
Book
Fiction
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I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.
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Just Being
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So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.
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Culture
Stuff
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I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people.
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Keys
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Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they can infect those around you or the people from the future and they can sing them for free too.
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Fashion
Song
Writing
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"He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of the best George Jones anecdotes I've ever read, like cocaine psychosis causing this personality called "the Duck."
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Book
Ducks
Psychosis
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This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.
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Anecdotes
Book
Perfect
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In memoir, can you really tell the truth about yourself? You're not going to write about your little peccadilloes, like, "I like a finger in my ass during sex." Or whatever it is. You're not going to come out in typical everyday conversation and say that. That's something that's going to be only for a select few.
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Everyday
Sex
Writing
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[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary.
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Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.
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