There's so much cool shit in the world.
— Darren scrolling thru Pinterest
Because of the support of one man.
— Robert Caro, Master of the Senate
This stuff Johnson puts out is written to be read.
— Homes Alexander via Robert Caro, Master of the Senate
I had two books of my collected writings published. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
"Seeing out Loud". ▫️▫️▫️▫️
"Seeing Out Louder". ▫️▫️▫️▫️
Both sold out 4 times. Yay! Boom! ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
Fact: I never made a dime off either of them. (The publishers were both fantastic. Love them both.). But cool, the books are out there. I got what I wanted. (Although I don't have any of the ... books. 😞😞😞😞😞 ‪😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞
Whatever. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
If anyone wants to do a Collection of my writing ---- just take all my work & do it. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
You don't need to ask. Take the work. Publish it. Take all the money. Really. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
You don't even need to give me any credit. You can say that YOU wrote these reviews. Or that someone else wrote them. Or change them all. Or do whatever you want with them. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
I believe Copyright is dead. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
I believe that photographs as well as writing is a material. And artists use *materials*.
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Take anything you want from me; anything.‬ ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
And maybe don't get so upset when you think/know that someone used an image or detail from your work. Art is a material. Artists use materials. It's a form of a compliment.
Xox
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PS. I have no idea if the books are available on-line or anywhere. I never looked it up. J.S.
Gutenberg made everyone a reader; the computer made everyone a publisher.
— @jerrysaltz
That's a late brunch.
— Rohun to his cousin arriving at 6:05pm from brunch.
Stopped worrying if you would be ok.
— Josh Hamilton as dad, Eight Grade
O that sounds gross. A paper cup to mix the egg lol
— Jay over email after my explanation of food poisoning
That right there is not a book.
— USPS woman not believing a book (THE WITNESS) is a book from its outline in a package.
The distance from here to where we went, and where we are now, is like phenominal.
— Paul McCartney, "Paul McCartney Carpool Karaoke," The Late Late Show with James Corden
People know what to do with and have a place for them.
— Lauri on books (paraphrase)
By sheer force of its repetitions.
— Alsop and Catledge via Robert Caro, Master of the Senate
We need to scale this. Our investors want a report.
— Lily as she throws birds crumbs and more come to eat them
We already know what to do with them.
— Lily on books (she may have said "we already have a place to put them... shelves.")
This must be like your all time favorite drink huh?
— Relatively new LPQ guy on small chai latte
Mr. Blanco was an aspiring rapper until he realized “no one cares what a chubby Jewish kid from Virginia thinks.”
— Joe Coscarelli, "How Benny Blanco Became the Most Popular Oddball in Pop Music," The New York Times
The sentence should have been, ‘I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia,’ sort of a double negative, so you can put that in, and I think that probably clarifies things pretty good.
— Trump
We have had to turn off all our web based shopping carts for emergency maintenance.
— Work email
I don't even know if there will be a 3 hole puncher there. That will be a whole thing.
— Lily's accidental pun
The idea that John Lasseter pitched was called "Toy Story." It sprang from a belief, which he and Jobs shared, that proudcts have an essence to them, a purpose for which they were made. If the object were to have feelings, these would be based on its desire to fulfill its essence.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Look at that bird trying to land on that bag. He doesn't understand.
— Lily