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Shopping has nothing to do with money. If you have it, you go to stores and galleries, and if not, you haunt flea markets or Goodwills. Never, though, do you not do it, choosing instead to visit a park or a temple or some cultural institution where they don't sell things.
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That's the thing with a diary, though. In order to record your life, you sort of need to live it. Not at your desk, but beyond it. Out in the world where it's so beautiful and complex and painful that sometimes you just need to sit down and write about it.
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When I saw myself through my parents' eyes, I saw a worm crawling through mud and shit toward a psychedelic mushroom, but when I saw myself through hers, I felt that things were possibly not as bad as they seemed.
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David Sedaris |
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Shit is the tofu of cursing.
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David Sedaris |
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Because I was lazy, I'd adopted the philosophy that things just happen.
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David Sedaris |
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'It is ironic that nudists are just about the last people you'd ever want to see naked.
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David Sedaris |
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If cooking is an art, I think we're in our Dada phase.
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David Sedaris |
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Cut corners and it'll always come back to bite you in the ass." That was one of her sayings.
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David Sedaris |
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Her face was like the weather in one of those places with no discernible seasons.
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David Sedaris |
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If you talk to people, you can have whatever you want.
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David Sedaris |
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It's fun to see where people live.
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David Sedaris |
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The inevitable finally happened, just as I knew it would.
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