Marc Maron Quotes

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• Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

  Marc Maron

  People, Needs, Medication

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• I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Comedian, Podcasting

  Twitter post from May 15, 2014

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• That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

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  Disappointment, People, Challenges

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.75, Spiegel & Grau

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• You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

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  Pain, Pain In Life, Define You

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• Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

  Marc Maron

  Suicidal, Gun, Wife

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• Is there any indication we shouldn't be depressed - are you living on the same planet that I am? Do you ever think that depression might be the reasonable human response to the crap we're going through as a species, meant to propel us into the next evolutionary step, or at least into taking some different course of action so we might survive? Do you ever think that maybe it's the happy people that are really screwed up in the head?

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Marc Maron - Bipolar Coaster". "Comedy Central Presents", Season 11, Episode 1, www.cc.com. January 12, 2007.

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• We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We’re aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from.

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  Art, Struggle, Animal

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.18, Spiegel & Grau

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• It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

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  Mean, Years, Adults

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal (Enhanced Edition)”, p.161, Random House Group

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• In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

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  Funny, Disappointment, Humor

  "Marc Maron 2/ Comedy Central Presents". Season 11 Ep. 1, Documentary, Comedy, www.cc.com. January 12, 2007.

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• I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.

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  Funny, Real, Humor

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• Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

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  Tired, Europe, Wings

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• Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

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  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

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  Laughter, Pain, Disappointment

  Marc Maron (2002). “The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah”, p.108, Crown Archetype

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• It's not all about love. That's half of it... The other half is about that moment you have with yourself when you're looking in the mirror, and you just go, 'Oh man. I'm going to compromise my dreams, get fat, sick, old and die someday. I kind of want to have someone around for that.'

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  Funny, Dream, Humor

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• It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

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  Integrity, Offering, Europe

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• That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.

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  Mistake, Stupid, Humility

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal (Enhanced Edition)”, p.134, Random House Group

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• Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

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  Funny, Humor, Talking

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• For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

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  Funny, Humor, Next

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• The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.

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  Distance, Book, Feel Better

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.14, Spiegel & Grau

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• They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets.

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  Funny, Country, Jobs

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• I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.

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  Funny, Humor, Commitment

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• Dogs are too much to handle. I don't need anything in my house that's needier than me.

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  Dog, House, Needs

  "Marc Maron Off-Screen". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2015.

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• I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

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  Funny, Humor, Hallucinations

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• If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.

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  Jobs, Games, Car

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.165, Spiegel & Grau

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• What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.

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  Notebook, Writing, Sacrifice

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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