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From Quotes by David Sedaris
- 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…
- It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize…
- My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
- I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.
- For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all,…
- 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,…
- Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them…
- The woman in charge of costuming assigned us our outfits and gave us a lecture on keeping things clean. She held up a calendar and…
- His embarassment would have pleased me, but once he recovered, there would be that awkward period that sometimes culminates in a handshake. I didn't want…
- Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even…
- She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building…
- The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.
- Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.
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