Frasi di David Sedaris
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David Raymond Sedaris è un umorista e scrittore statunitense.

In molti dei suoi libri autoironizza sulla propria vita, raccontandosi in maniera goliardica ed esagerata, tanto che i suoi libri, pur autobiografici, sono stati definiti romanzi . Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Dicembre 1956
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David Sedaris: Frasi in inglese

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

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."”

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)

“Sure, some people are nice. Real nice. Nice like carpets so you can walk all over them.”

16.04.1979 - p.31
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

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

06.04.1999 - p.387
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."”

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

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

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

Essay: "C.O.G." (p.222)
Naked (1997)

“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.”

David Sedaris libro 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.”

David Sedaris libro 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.”

David Sedaris libro 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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