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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

“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
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

“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
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

“If you talk to people, you can have whatever you want.”

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26.09.1978 - p.21
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

“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
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

“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
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

“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
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

“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.]
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

“The inevitable finally happened, just as I knew it would.”

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06.04.1999 - p.387
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

“Delinquent style is timeless. Real trouble doesn't walk around with a ponytail. It doesn't have a Mohawk or special shoelace patterns. Real trouble has a bad complexion and a Windbreaker.”

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08.12.1986 - p.153
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

“Walking down 8th Avenue, I fell in behind two muscled gym queens. When a car alarm went off, one of them turned to the other, saying, "That's the Puerto Rican national anthem."”

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"Really?" the other guy said. "That's actually their anthem?"

04.09.1992 - p.291
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

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

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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.”

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

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

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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.”

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David Sedaris livre 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?”

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David Sedaris livre 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.”

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David Sedaris livre 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.”

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David Sedaris livre 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.”

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David Sedaris livre 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)

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