January 2010
23 posts
On Maui, one November, Hugh and I went swimming, and turned to find a gigantic...
– David Sedaris (via theiloveyouproject)
December 2009
27 posts
We were standing near the Lollipop Forest when we realized that Santa is an...
– David Sedaris, SantaLand Diaries (via lostmymusic)
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)
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)
While eight flying reindeer are a hard pill to swallow, our Christmas story...
– David Sedaris, Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim (via mykalbloom)
Sometimes, when I find it hard to sleep, I’ll think of when we first met, of the...
– David Sedaris (via bouncytrouncyfun)
College is the best thing that can ever happen to you,” my father used to say,...
– David Sedaris, Naked (via strugglebuggy)
When asked “what do we need to learn this for?” any high school teacher can...
– Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris (via unikorns)
At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn’t imagine...
– David Sedaris (via dirtpub)
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)
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...
Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to...
– David Sedaris (via mannerofspeaking)
It’s just a penis, right? Probably no worse for you than smoking.
– David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames (via handkerchiefsandwich)
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an...
– David Sedaris (via leelanmend18)
Like all of my friends, she’s a lousy judge of character
– David Sedaris (via bymistakeorbydesign)
… [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than...
– David Sedaris (via fragilidad)
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)
Mr. Mancini had a singular talent for making me uncomfortable. He forced me to...
– David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day) (via fuckyall)
When all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to...
– Sedaris - [ holidays on ice ]
(via insomniac-rants)
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...
Someone in our family had taken to wiping his or her ass on the bath towels....
– Naked - David Sedaris
(via starsandglitter)
I once worked as a runner on a construction site and lost my job when the head...
– David Sedaris, “Something for Everyone” (via pomplamoose)