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Up Quotes by David Sedaris
- God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He…
- A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the…
- 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,…
- Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between…
- When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of…
- 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…
- 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…
- Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who…
- Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at." When asked for some examples, he listed…
- Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has personally affronted, your host will…
- 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…
- There’s a lot I don’t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest in getting married…
- I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression: I…
- 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…
- Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a…
- As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.
- People ask me, 'Have you ever considered doing stand-up?' To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, 'Have you ever considered dental…
More Up Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong