David Sedaris: Quotes about people

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“I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”

David Sedaris Naked

Source: Naked (1997)

“We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.”

David Sedaris Naked

Source: Naked

“I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.”

David Sedaris

“Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.”

David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?”

David Sedaris

“Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.”

David Sedaris

“Weird doors open. People fall into things.”

David Sedaris

“On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.”

David Sedaris

“A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.”

David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention”

David Sedaris

“In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)

“People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch”

David Sedaris book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Source: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

“Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.”

David Sedaris book Holidays on Ice

Source: Holidays on Ice

“there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father."
He weared the long hair, and after he died, the first day he come back here for to say hello to the peoples."
He nice, the Jesus.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.”

David Sedaris Naked

Naked (1997)

“They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgeable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)

“People had their places, and to not understand that, to act in violation of it, demoted you from a nature nut to something even lower, a complete untouchable, basically.”

David Sedaris book Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

Essay, "Loggerheads". p.68
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)

“Something has changed, and now, when I look at my students, I see only people who are going to eat up my time.”

David Sedaris

17.01.1989 - p.201
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)