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David Sedaris, né à Binghamton , le 26 décembre 1956, est un écrivain, humoriste et animateur de radio américain. Sa célébrité a débuté en 1992 lorsque la National Public Radio a diffusé son essai « Santaland Diaries ». Il a publié son premier recueil d’essais et de nouvelles, Barrel Fever , en 1994. Son livre suivant, Naked , littéralement "Tout nu" , a été le premier d’une série de best-sellers publiés dans le New York Times, et son recueil Me Talk Pretty One Day a remporté le prix Thurber de l’humour américain.

Une grande partie de l’humour de Sedaris est ostensiblement autobiographique, autodérisoire et concerne sa vie de famille, son éducation de classe moyenne dans la banlieue de Raleigh, en Caroline du Nord, son héritage grec, son homosexualité, son travail, son éducation, sa consommation de drogue et ses comportements obsessionnels, ainsi que sa vie en France, à Londres, à New York et dans les South Downs en Angleterre. Il a écrit plusieurs pièces de théâtre avec sa sœur, l’actrice et écrivaine Amy Sedaris.

En 2019, Sedaris a été élu à l’Académie américaine des arts et des lettres. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. décembre 1956
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David Sedaris: Citations en anglais

“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”

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David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”

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David Sedaris livre Holidays on Ice

Source: Holidays on Ice

“Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.”

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David Sedaris livre Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)

“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.”

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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.”

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David Sedaris Naked

Source: Naked

“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”

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David Sedaris livre Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

Source: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

“If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.”

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David Sedaris livre Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”

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David Sedaris livre Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Source: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

“All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.”

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David Sedaris livre Holidays on Ice

Source: Holidays on Ice

“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”

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“I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.”

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David Sedaris livre Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“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.”

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“Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.”

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David Sedaris livre Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Source: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

“It's just a penis, right? Probably no worse for you than smoking.”

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David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.”

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David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“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.”

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David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”

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David Sedaris livre Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.”

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

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“High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.”

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David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.”

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Source: Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. Why refer to lady crack pipe or good sir dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied?”

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David Sedaris livre Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“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.”

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“It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.”

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David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“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.”

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Interview with Robert David Sullivan<!-- published/quoted where? -->
Contexte: "I love things made out of animals," Sedaris says, holding a knife with a hoof for a handle. "It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.'"

“The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.”

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David Sedaris livre Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Source: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

“It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.”

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