The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.
David SedarisIโd always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasnโt that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out their IV. I think it was their fortitude that frightened us. Sick people reminded us not of what we had, but of what we lacked. Everything we said sounded petty and insignificant; our complaints paled in the face of theirs, and without our complaints, there was nothing to say.
David SedarisThe way Trump talks about Obama: presidents don't do that! What we're seeing now is a whole new level of vulgarity. I'm really hoping that it's not the rule from here on out. It's really distressing for me to witness this. I really hope we don't have to throw all decency out the window, just because Trump's president.
David SedarisPeople are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.
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