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An alternate obit
Was not feeling festive. And then Aunt Becky sent her famous Santa cookies OMG pic.twitter.com/uUIs90Oxsp
— Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) December 20, 2015
My aunt Becky died this week at the age of 72.
I have read a lot of obituaries, but hers is the first I ever wrote.
While I was writing it, I thought a lot about constraint and form and perspective. How we get to know a person and how im
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“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.”
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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“Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?”
― Stone Arabia
― Stone Arabia
“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― The Braindead Megaphone
― The Braindead Megaphone
“...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.”
― The Sisters Brothers
― The Sisters Brothers
Ask Austin Kleon - Thursday, March 13th!
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