"I've always been very upfront about the way……" — David Sedaris
"I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration."
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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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