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"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
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"Advertising is legalized lying."
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"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should."
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"Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
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"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."
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"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."
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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
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"My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day."
Writing
"When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not."
People
"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."
Marriage
"I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes."
Being
"I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience."
Advertising
"I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them."
People
"But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago."
Life
"I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time."
Time
"As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward."
Being
"I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."
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