"What other people call dark and despairing, I…" — David Sedaris
"What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny."
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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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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke…
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
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