"As a child I assumed that when I……" — David Sedaris
"As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts."
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221 Quotes by David Sedaris
David Sedaris has 221 quotes on this site.
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In Paris you're always surrounded by French people.
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Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and…
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Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic…
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Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.
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If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.
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I always used to reach for the cigarette when the phone rang, and I figured nobody would ever call me…
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I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to…
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I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay,…
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I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the…
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I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.
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Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it…
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I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first…
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More Adulthood Quotes
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than…
— Margaret Cho
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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having…
— Carol Bellamy
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and…
— Sydney J. Harris
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The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.
— Robert Redford
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Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.
— Wes Fesler
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If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career…
— Charles Lindbergh
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The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched…
— Tom Brokaw
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste ears, trying to get someone…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in…
— Charlotte Sophia Kasl
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People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents,…
— Alice Miller
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