David Sedaris Quote

The Romanians really do lead the world when it comes to cursing. What have you got for me? I asked a woman from Transylvania who was now living in Vienna.Shove your hand up my ass and jerk off my shit, she offered.I was stunned. Anyone else would say, ‘Shove your hand up my ass,’ and then run out of imagination, I told her. You people, though, you just keep going. And that’s what makes you the champions you are. , I thought, watching as she walked out the door and onto the unsuspecting streets of Vienna, this poet, this queen, this glittering jewel in a city of flint.

David Sedaris

The Romanians really do lead the world when it comes to cursing. What have you got for me? I asked a woman from Transylvania who was now living in Vienna.Shove your hand up my ass and jerk off my shit, she offered.I was stunned. Anyone else would say, ‘Shove your hand up my ass,’ and then run out of imagination, I told her. You people, though, you just keep going. And that’s what makes you the champions you are. , I thought, watching as she walked out the door and onto the unsuspecting streets of Vienna, this poet, this queen, this glittering jewel in a city of flint.

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About David Sedaris

David Raymond Sedaris ( sih-DAIR-iss; born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "Santaland Diaries". He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. His next book, Naked (1997), became his first of a series of New York Times Bestsellers, and his 2000 collection Me Talk Pretty One Day won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Much of Sedaris's humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating and often concerns his family life, his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, his Greek heritage, homosexuality, jobs, education, drug use, and obsessive behaviors, as well as his life in France, London, New York, and the South Downs in England. He is the brother and writing collaborator of actress Amy Sedaris.
In 2019, Sedaris was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.