"whenever I read a passage that moves me,……" — David Sedaris
"whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like."
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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 Diaries Quotes
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and…
— James M. Barrie
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
— Jo Brand
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'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm…
— Luke Bryan
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I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.
— Luke Bryan
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One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from…
— James Buchan
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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
— Ken Burns
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your…
— Barbara Bush
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
— Jackie Chan
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Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning…
— Laozi
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I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you…
— Jo Yoon-hee
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