694 Quotes by David Sedaris

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    I’m surrounded by people who have more money than they know what to do with, and none of them have earned it.

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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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    Walking twenty-five miles, or even running up the stairs and back, suddenly seemed pointless, since without the steps being counted and registered, what use were they?

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    It was like watching someone you hate getting mugged: three seconds of hard-core violence, and when it was over you just wanted it to happen again.

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    I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'

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