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David Sedaris


American
December 26, 1956
Writer
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I love 'Glee.'


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I sometimes read books on my iPad.


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I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.


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I think it's important to take chances.


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Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.


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Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.


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Tags: Live Learn Books
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If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.


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There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.


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I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.


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I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.


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I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.


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To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.


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Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.


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When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.


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My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
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I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.
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I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
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I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.
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I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
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If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.
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It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'
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