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David Sedaris
December 26, 1956
Born in Johnson City, New York
Radio essayist with a unique view of the world - or at the very least, a unique way of sharing his view with the rest of the world. His writing is probably more enjoyable if you've heard his radio essays and can hear his voice in your head as you read.
Quote
"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."
Off-Site Resource
The David Sedaris Page From His Lecture Agent
Bibliography (Please use the comment function to politely send corrections.)
Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays - 1994
Naked - 1997
Holidays on Ice - 1998
Me Talk Pretty One Day - 2000
The David Sedaris Box Set (unabridged recordings of his essays) - 2002
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - 2004
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules - 2005 (editor)
When You Are Engulfed In Flames - 2008
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Author Profiles
- Westlake, Donald - Bibliography
- Crane, Hart
- Pyle, Ernie
- Whitman, Walt
- Ferber, Edna
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Barnes, Linda
- Salinger, J. D.
- Parker, Robert B.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Miller, Henry
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
- King, Stephen
- London, Jack
- Abbey, Edward
- Asimov, Isaac
- Ballard, J. G.
- Author Index
- Morley, Christopher
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Ambrose, Stephen
- Hunter, Evan
- Carr, John Dickson
- Adams, Brooks
- Adams, Henry
- Adams, Richard
- Agee, James
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Anthony, Piers
- Austen, Jane
Great Quotations
- Jack London on the advantages of not being a cabbage
Author's Name Jack London Type of Quote Animals
Change"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better." - Edith Wharton on Secrets and Age
Author's Name Edith Wharton He was growing old, and beginning to need rest and an imperturbed spirit. He did not want the secrets of other lives thrust upon him. - Edith Wharton on Weddings
Author's Name Edith Wharton She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. Nice thing for a woman to say to her husband! - James Tiptree, Jr., (Alice B. Sheldon)
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.
- Truman Capote
Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves.
- Jack London
"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
- Donald Westlake
"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event."
- John Gregory Dunne
"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
- G.K. Chesterton
"If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst. Otherwise patriotism will be a very poor thing indeed."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"It is like two bald men fighting over a comb."
Jorge Luis Borges on the Falklands war.
- Stephen King
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