David Sedaris Quotes
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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I'm trying to be the Jay-Z of comedy one day. I don't know if there's any comedy moguls out there, but I would love to be the first comedy mogul.
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I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.
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I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.
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The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom – the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army)
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Why worry? There should be laughter after pain.There should be sunshine after rain.These things have always been the same.So why worry now?
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No, I don't think they're obsessive, they're just dedicated.
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At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.
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We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the word. And we all kind of stopped and said, 'That could be a name!' ... It just feels kind of country and nostalgic.
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It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
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All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
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As a photographer, there are times when I have to decide if it's appropriate to invade a moment with my camera.
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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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I sometimes read books on my iPad.
