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The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention. (David Sedaris)
I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners. View quote
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This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. View quote
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What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny. View quote
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Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes. View quote
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Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise. View quote
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There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents. View quote
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I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything. View quote
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I sometimes read books on my iPad. View quote
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I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me. View quote
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I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like. (David Sedaris)
To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news. View quote
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I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration. View quote
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When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening. View quote
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There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about. View quote
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High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there. View quote
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A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at. View quote
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Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit? View quote
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I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity. View quote
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Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face. View quote
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Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie. (David Sedaris)
I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous. View quote
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The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons. View quote
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He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone. View quote
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but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment. 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
Wikipedia: David Sedaris

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