David Sedaris Quotes

• Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I’d do it more if I could get away with it.

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• But most good movies have a gun in them.

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• But I’m a humorist. I’m not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

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• Because I’ve always been a fairly nervous person.

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• As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

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• Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

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• Actually I liked that ‘Let the Right One In,’ that Swedish vampire movie.

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• What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

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• But I don’t distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I’ll take either.

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• I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the ‘Harry Potter’ books.

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• Sometimes with ‘The New Yorker,’ they have grammar rules that just don’t feel right in my mouth.

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• Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you’re in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can’t be thought of as cute.

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• I’m the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I’ve never even met.

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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.

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• Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

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• They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

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•  There are lots of things that happen to me that I don’t write about.

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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.

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• Sometimes I say to myself, ‘Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award’, although I’m not that bothered.

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• People ask me, ‘Have you ever considered doing stand-up?’ To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, ‘Have you ever considered dental implants?’

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David Sedaris (66)

Birth:	26th December, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Comedian, Humorist

About

David Raymond Sedaris is an American humorist, comedian, author and radio contributor nominated for a Grammy Award.
Sedaris has been described as 'the rock star of writers'. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries".

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