"but I have no mind for business and……" — David Sedaris

"but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment."

— David Sedaris

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221 Quotes by David Sedaris

David Sedaris has 221 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic…
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…
I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to…
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay,…
I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the…
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…
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 Accomplishment Quotes

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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. — Arthur Ashe
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge… — Mary Astell
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how… — Albert Bandura
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. — Warren G. Bennis
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow. — William J. H. Boetcker
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see… — Harold Brodkey
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. — Nathaniel Branden
Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. — Sarah Brightman
I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am… — Sarah Brightman
I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live… — George W. Bush
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's… — Thomas Carlyle

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