David Sedaris cytaty (108 cytatów, strona 4)

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“On several occasions during my visit, she referred to herself as poor, and that depressed me. Most people would say they're broke. That word suggests a temporary setback. Poor, on the other hand, conveys a permanence.”

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09.11.2000 - p.431
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“Later I went to the design school and saw Kumar and Melamid, the Soviet dissident artists, who are funny. I sold them my soul for $1.”

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26.02.1981 - p.52
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“If you talk to people, you can have whatever you want.”

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26.09.1978 - p.21
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“Someone in the back of the room started singing "God Bless America."”

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The thing about "God Bless America" is that, after a certain point, nobody really knows the words. There's always a weird mumbling that follows "Stand beside her and guide her," and lasts until "From the mountains to the prairies."

12.09.2001 - p.455
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“After coming home, I listened to the radio and cleaned up a little. A woman on All Things Considered wrote a book of advice called If You Want to Write and mentioned the importance of keeping a diary. It was valuable, she said, because after a while you'd stop being forced and pretentious and become honest and unafraid of your thoughts.”

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01.07.1983 - p.94
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“Sure, some people are nice. Real nice. Nice like carpets so you can walk all over them.”

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16.04.1979 - p.31
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“Another old-fashioned practice I maintain is carrying a notebook, a small one I keep in my shirt pocket and never leave the house without. In it I register all the little things that strike me, not in great detail but just quickly. The following morning I'll review what I jotted down and look for the most meaningful moment in the previous day, the one in which I felt truly present.
It's worth mentioning that this is my edit. It wasn't easy revisiting what are now 156 volumes of my diary.”

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"Introduction". p.6, 7 [Page numbers per the 2017 Little, Brown hardback UK edition.]
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