Annoying Quote by Phil Elvrum

“Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!"”

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I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day,…

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I'm not ... pumped about being alive. But I don't think about suicide ever. I have a kid. I think that's just an automatic shut-off of that idea. In fact, I just instantly went into the necessities of parenting, and I think it's been very good for grief. Because it's a reality check, I guess. I have very real tasks…

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All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

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I probably wouldn't kill a spider now, I'd probably try to scoop it up in a cup and put it outside, but not for…

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I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here…

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When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality. It's usually…

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I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just…

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All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so…

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Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do. Music…

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I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a few days.…

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A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot.…

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Death is natural, and it happens early for some people. I acknowledge that, and in the next sentence, reject it, because it just sucks.…

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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others…

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