David Sedaris Quotes

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• In Paris you're always surrounded by French people.
• Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing…
• Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw…
• Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.
• If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.
• I always used to reach for the cigarette when the phone rang, and I figured nobody would ever call me in Tokyo. The time difference…
• I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.
• I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself…
• I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any…
• I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.
• Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like…
• I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself.…
• Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns.
• People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself…
• The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.
• If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.
• Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are…
• I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
• When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people…
• I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

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