"Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a……" — David Sedaris
"Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp."
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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 Blade Quotes
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one of 367 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
— Michele Bachmann
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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
— James M. Barrie
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make…
— John Calvin
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Steel True, Blade Straight.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his…
— Li-Young Lee
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
— Thomas A. Edison
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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine…
— Laozi
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is…
— Steven Pressfield
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By `God` I mean godliness; the whole existence is full of godliness. And when you will come to know, you…
— Rajneesh
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Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's…
— Bill Fitch
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