David Sedaris Quotes

I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.

David Sedaris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 26, 1956

Topics

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In the 1960s and into the '70s, everyone in their own way was trying to open up the musical horizon. There shouldn't be a wall that you're going toward and bouncing off.

Jimmy Page

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It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Jerry Seinfeld

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When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.

Jo Beverley

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There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Sophocles

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I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

Mason Cooley

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I remember, when I saw the first 'Austin Powers' movie, I was blown away by how fun and original it was.

Mike Scully

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Gawker started out speaking the truth to power, and then it became about bullying anyone who didn't conform to their social justice orthodoxy. They wanted to inflict pain on people with no platform simply for the sake of inflicting pain.

Mike Cernovich

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We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others.

Luke Scott

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Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

Christa McAuliffe

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A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't.

Christian Louboutin

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