Quotes by David Sedaris

David Sedaris

… [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me naïve, but I seemed to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross.

Desire

Eye

Thinking

…clatter of a typwriter suggests that you’re actually building something.

Building

Building Something

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn’t that much of a stretch

People

Viruses

Weekend

“This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you,” he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he was right. Worse than the boil was the stuff that came out of it. What got to me, and got to him even worse, was the stench, which was unbearable, and unlike anything I had come across before. It was, I thought, what evil must smell like – not an evil person but the wicked ideas that have made him that way. How could a person continue to live with something so rotten inside? And so much of it!

Hurt

Ideas

Smell

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Insightful

Stories

Writing

A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichéd notion of love. I had never entertained the feeling myself but knew that it meant never having to say you’re sorry. It was a many-splendored thing. Love was a rose and a hammer. Both blind and all-seeing, it made the world go round.

Love

Rose

Sorry

A lot of people don’t know what they want, you know, or they’re just kind of vague about it.

Kind

People

A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.

College

Drug

Night

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.

Looks

People

Zoos

Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn’t want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks.

Going Away

Ideas

Nice

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Abstract

Accomplishment

Acropolis

Adventure

Adversity

Afternoon

Air

Airports

America

And Love

Animal

Arguing

Art

Art Is

Artist

Asking

Asking Questions

Attention

Attitude

Audio

Auschwitz

Awards

Baby

Bars

Bathroom

Baths

Beats

Beautiful

Bed

Beer

Being In Love

Believe

Betrayal

Bigs

Birthday

Blood

Blur

Bones

Book

Boring

Boys

Braces

Break Out

Brother

Building

Building Something

Bully

Buying

Calling

Camping

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Quotes by David Sedaris

David Sedaris

… [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me naïve, but I seemed to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross.

…clatter of a typwriter suggests that you’re actually building something.

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn’t that much of a stretch

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

A lot of people don’t know what they want, you know, or they’re just kind of vague about it.

A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.

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.

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