January 2010
23 posts
“On Maui, one November, Hugh and I went swimming, and turned to find a gigantic...”
– David Sedaris (via theiloveyouproject)
Jan 1st
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December 2009
27 posts
“We were standing near the Lollipop Forest when we realized that Santa is an...”
– David Sedaris, SantaLand Diaries (via lostmymusic)
Dec 31st
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“Her fondness for transformation began at an early age and has developed into...”
– David Sedaris on his sister Amy, Me Talk Pretty One Day, via style rookie (via hoodablah)
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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“Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule,...”
–  David Sedaris (Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim) (via bouncytrouncyfun)
Dec 28th
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“While eight flying reindeer are a hard pill to swallow, our Christmas story...”
– David Sedaris, Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim (via mykalbloom)
Dec 27th
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“Sometimes, when I find it hard to sleep, I’ll think of when we first met, of the...”
–  David Sedaris (via bouncytrouncyfun)
Dec 26th
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“College is the best thing that can ever happen to you,” my father used to say,...”
– David Sedaris, Naked (via strugglebuggy)
Dec 25th
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“When asked “what do we need to learn this for?” any high school teacher can...”
– Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris (via unikorns)
Dec 24th
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn’t imagine...”
– David Sedaris (via dirtpub)
Dec 20th
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“My stove, a downer, tells me every day that I can’t cook and before I can defend...”
– When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris (via rebexcellent)
Dec 19th
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What David Sedaris Read This Year →
jockohomo: “I love audiobooks, in part because I’m lazy and in part because I’m not. Rather than sitting still and moving my eyes over a page, I like to roam around and do stuff—iron, say, or defrost my freezer. I take walks, I soak in the tub, I turn up the volume and vacuum. The problem with audiobooks is that they’re so often imbalanced. This is to say that the narrator is better than his...
Dec 18th
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“Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to...”
– David Sedaris (via mannerofspeaking)
Dec 17th
“It’s just a penis, right? Probably no worse for you than smoking.”
– David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames (via handkerchiefsandwich)
Dec 15th
Dec 11th
“Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an...”
–  David Sedaris (via leelanmend18)
Dec 10th
“Like all of my friends, she’s a lousy judge of character”
– David Sedaris (via bymistakeorbydesign)
Dec 9th
“… [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than...”
– David Sedaris (via fragilidad)
Dec 8th
“If you happen to live there, it’s always refreshing to view Manhattan from afar....”
– David Sedaris, “The Great Leap Forward”, ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY (via sjaejones)
Dec 7th
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“Mr. Mancini had a singular talent for making me uncomfortable. He forced me to...”
– David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day) (via fuckyall)
Dec 6th
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“When all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to...”
– Sedaris - [ holidays on ice ] (via insomniac-rants)
Dec 5th
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New Yorker: Letting Go-Smoking & Not Smoking by... →
youveescaped: When I was in fourth grade, my class took a field trip to the American Tobacco plant in nearby Durham, North Carolina. There we witnessed the making of cigarettes and were given free packs to take home to our parents. I tell people this and they ask me how old I am, thinking, I guess, that I went to the world’s first elementary school, one where we wrote on cave walls and hunted...
Dec 4th
“Someone in our family had taken to wiping his or her ass on the bath towels....”
– Naked - David Sedaris (via starsandglitter)
Dec 3rd
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“I once worked as a runner on a construction site and lost my job when the head...”
– David Sedaris, “Something for Everyone” (via pomplamoose)
Dec 2nd