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“It is ironic that nudists are just about the last people you'd ever want to see naked.”

David Sedaris Naked

Essay: "Naked". (p.339)
Naked (1997)

“That's the beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way, suggest that you have no talent.”

David Sedaris Naked

Essay: "Something for everyone". (p.238)
Naked (1997)

“Because I was lazy, I'd adopted the philosophy that things just happen.”

David Sedaris Naked

Essay: "C.O.G." (p.222)
Naked (1997)

“I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I come off sounding like a missionary, someone whose job it is to convert rather than listen.”

David Sedaris book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Essay: "Put a lid on it" - p.203
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)

“What really interests me are the local gun laws. Can I carry a concealed weapon and, if so, under what circumstances? What's the waiting period for a tommy gun? Could I buy a Glock 17 if I were recently divorced or fired from my job?”

David Sedaris book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Essay, "Six to eight black men" - p.157-158
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)

“I never went into their apartment, but what I saw from the door was pretty rough - not simply messy or chaotic, but hopeless, the lair of a depressed person.”

David Sedaris book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Essay, "The girl next door" - p.108
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)

“Cut corners and it'll always come back to bite you in the ass.”

David Sedaris book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

That was one of her sayings.

Essay, "The girl next door" - p.106
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)

“It was insulting to be told not to take too much of something you didn't really want in the first place.”

David Sedaris book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Essay: "Us and them" - p.7 [page numbers per the Abacus paperback, 2005 UK edition]
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)