"Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at……" — David Sedaris
"Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table."
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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 Carcass Quotes
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one of 38 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as…
— Zhuangzi
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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like…
— Herman Melville
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Oh yes, I dated Orson Welles. We had many encounters on both coasts. I remember the first time he saw me…
— Maila Nurmi
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In the Barbecue is any four footed animal -- be it mouse or mastodon -- whose dressed carcass is roasted…
— William Allen White
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The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in…
— Jan Neruda
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The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the…
— Aleister Crowley
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Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark.…
— Unknown Author
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Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a…
— Rumi
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I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots...
— Alison Moyet
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Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.
— Marcus Aurelius
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