"Their Lives In Just Six Words"
From USA Today, on Thursday.
"Could you sum up your life in just six words? Writers took the pithy challenge in Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure from Smith Magazine...
...This online publication's request for quick memoirs garnered 15,000 submissions; 800 made the book. Here are what some of the more famous contributors wrote:
'Well, I thought it was funny.' Stephen Colbert
'Me see world! Me write stories!' Elizabeth Gilbert
'Secret of life: Marry an Italian.' Nora Ephron
'Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.' Arianna Huffington
'Revenge is living well without you.' Joyce Carol Oates
'Fifteen years since last professional haircut.' David Eggers
'Mushrooms. Clowns. Wands. Five. Wig. Thatched.' Amy Sedaris"
Me again. Okay, first of all, I need to come up with one of these dumb ideas that everyone else seems to have that enables one with no actual writing ability to get other people to do all the hard work and then be able to put out a book.
Secondly, there is no question what my six word memoir would be. It has been my motto for years, the one thing I have learned that is my life's lesson. I am willing to share it with you and invite you to post your own six word memoirs below. Here's my gift to you:
Next time: More sheep, Fewer goats.
Be different and keep your wife.
Posted by:Geo | February 23, 2008 at 04:36 AM
There are three types of people: Those who can count and those who can't. My six words would be: Math ain't my strong suit.
Posted by:jim miller | February 23, 2008 at 06:00 AM
Yup... should have gone to college.
Posted by:Cathy | February 23, 2008 at 06:49 AM
i'm kind of a big deal
Posted by:[ b ] e c k e r | February 23, 2008 at 07:11 AM
Don't worry. Be happy.
Posted by:Diane | February 23, 2008 at 08:27 AM
Ice is slippery, protect your knees.
It was fun while it lasted.
Kids and dogs, no new furniture
Dogs eat rocks and surgery's exepensive
Posted by:Nicole | February 23, 2008 at 09:04 AM
Why didn't I have true friends
Posted by:Raul | February 23, 2008 at 09:25 AM
Laugh and live life with pets.
Posted by:lefsegirl | February 23, 2008 at 09:32 AM
Our Family Motto: It's Never Easy
Posted by:Jill | February 23, 2008 at 10:03 AM
let me just finish this row
Posted by:Annaremedial | February 23, 2008 at 11:05 AM
saturday nights with internet and cola
Posted by: | February 23, 2008 at 11:26 AM
I want more beer please. Thanks.
Posted by:MEgan | February 23, 2008 at 11:52 AM
Honest,she said she was eighteen.
Posted by:brother john | February 23, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Ernest Hemingway wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, but it's his six word story idea that will truly live in infamy.
This Story's just six words long:
"Just take the damn happy pills."
Posted by:Frances | February 23, 2008 at 01:24 PM
Worms! Should have gone with cremation.
Posted by:Jamie | February 23, 2008 at 02:04 PM
Life: not a bowl of cherries.
Posted by:cathy g | February 23, 2008 at 08:28 PM
College is supposed to be hard.
Posted by:Allison | February 23, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Do not be surprised by anything.
Posted by:Fred G. | February 24, 2008 at 01:11 AM
Hooters hooters yum yum yum, Hooters hooters on a girl thats dum.
I never learned to count.
Posted by:casey | February 24, 2008 at 04:48 AM
Wait, it all comes full circle
Posted by:EditThis | February 24, 2008 at 02:50 PM
Divorce: really sours you on marriage.
Posted by:LS | February 24, 2008 at 03:27 PM
Four words: I drink your milkshake.
Posted by:Lori | February 24, 2008 at 04:13 PM
Good training for the mission field!!!
Posted by:Heidi | February 25, 2008 at 07:52 AM
Nothing bad ever happens to me.
Took it from an Oingo Boingo song title.
Posted by:Kinga Fan | February 25, 2008 at 09:23 AM
Delight your friends; Confound your enemies.
That is a modified quote by Homer. Full is:
"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends"
Posted by:jes | February 25, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Bean,
I thought yours would have been:
Women are no God Damn Good!
Mine is:
Memoir for Sale, only on ebay.
Posted by:Edmund F | February 25, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Wait, it's on the tip...damn...
Posted by:Ken | February 26, 2008 at 08:19 AM
"Loving family - nothing else really matters"
"Don't bogart that joint, my friend"
Posted by:Angry Adam | February 26, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Money for nothing, chicks for free
Posted by:Angry Adam | February 26, 2008 at 04:39 PM
I liked my last life more
Posted by:Caitlin | February 26, 2008 at 09:08 PM
Lesson learned in six words: "Smoothness first, then speed will come."
My life in just six words: "Finally ran completely out of patience."
Posted by:SoCal | February 29, 2008 at 10:28 AM
What you believe becomes your reality
Posted by:Blkjkrabbit66 | March 10, 2008 at 01:27 AM