"...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually……" — David Sedaris
"...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something."
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- The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch. — Henry Markram
- I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers. — Douglas Coupland
- Leave the woodpile higher than you found it. — Adrian Rogers
- Be aware of the walls you build and what could be on the other side — Alice Clayton
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- To build is to dwell. — Maxine Kumin
- Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
221 Quotes by David Sedaris
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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 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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