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A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. (David Sedaris)
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. View quote
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Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat. View quote
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What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it. View quote
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Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive. View quote
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I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that. View quote
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This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight. View quote
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I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally. View quote
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I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. View quote
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Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it. View quote
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I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead. (David Sedaris)
Weird doors open. People fall into things. View quote
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The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing. View quote
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I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. View quote
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But most good movies have a gun in them. View quote
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There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows. View quote
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As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners. View quote
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My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her. View quote
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It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment. View quote
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The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate. View quote
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My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining. (David Sedaris)
I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine. View quote
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People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American. View quote
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The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you're a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence. View quote
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I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer. View quote
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David Sedaris

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Photo: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: American Writer
Born: December 26, 1956
Quotes count: 167
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