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Back Quotes by David Sedaris
- 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…
- I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour,…
- A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
- Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he…
- After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too,…
- In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters…
- He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father." He weared the long hair, and after he…
- The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They seem to think…
- Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating…
- I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such…
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- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back… — David Attenborough
- I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe
- Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. — Margaret Atwood
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood