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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

Topics: Any Dinner Get Just Laughs People Say Someone Story Tells Think True Who

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No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Better Dialect Even Should Than Try Writes

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I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Book Came First Later Out Seventeen Started Twenty Writing Years

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I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Book Book Signings Half Hours Meet Now People Record Signing Sitting Ten

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I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Am Facebook Goes Gone Know Me Never Pretending Same Sending Someone Sure Tweets Twitter Understand Why

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I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Couch Enjoy Just Lying Magazine Reading

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Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Audio Books Compromise Learn Live Lovers

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

~David Sedaris

Topics: Away Boy Could Exaggerate Get If I Could More

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I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Animals Deer Funny Guess Just Letter Love Made Need Out Saying Someone Things Think I Love

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My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Anyone Bit Different Else Entertaining Family Maybe More Really Well

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 26th, 1956

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