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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is a 2004 collection of 22 autobiographical essays by American humorist David Sedaris. The essays address the author's upbringing in Raleigh, North Carolina, his relationships with family members, and his work and life in New York City and France.

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

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“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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“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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“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”

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“I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.”

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“If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.”

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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)

“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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Essay: "Put a lid on it" - p.203
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“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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Essay, "Six to eight black men" - p.157-158
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“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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Essay, "The girl next door" - p.108
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“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
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“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]
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