"I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's……" — David Sedaris
"I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer."
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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 Auschwitz Quotes
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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
— Primo Levi
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened…
— Terry Brooks
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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal…
— R. J. Hollingdale
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There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have…
— Nahum Goldmann
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No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.
— Art Spiegelman
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I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third…
— Sacha Baron Cohen
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People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.
— Newt Gingrich
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I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.
— Michael Crichton
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming…
— Erwin Chargaff
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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
— Elie Wiesel
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