"It make one's mouth hurt to speak with……" — David Sedaris
"It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment."
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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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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but…
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he…
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
— James A. Baldwin
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The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced…
— Javier Bardem
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
— Jean Baudrillard
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In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the…
— Scott Adams
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
— John Berger
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If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of…
— Annie Besant
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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for…
— Elayne Boosler
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If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced…
— Les Brown
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
— Abdallah II
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