"They were nothing like the French people I……" — David Sedaris
"They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity."
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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 Electricity Quotes
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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and…
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
— Dave Barry
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what…
— Jeff Bezos
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last…
— David Bowie
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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth…
— Bill Bryson
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none…
— James Buchan
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive…
— James Buchan
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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the…
— George W. Bush
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I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I…
— Jane Campion
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Electricity is really just organized lightning.
— George Carlin
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What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that…
— Ray Charles
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