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Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.


Amy Sedaris

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ANDREW SOLOMON For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready.
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BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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VERA WANG I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
PAULEY PERRETTE Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.
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ROSELYN SANCHEZ I thought he was joking.
COREY SMITH I think I was joking when I said that.
LAMAR BUTLER Shut up, me,” Leo said aloud.
“What?” Piper asked.
“Nothing,” he said. “Long n...
RICK RIORDAN All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
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STEVEN MAGEE All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil
BENJAMIN DISRAELI All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
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SUZE ORMAN He showed that politicians can learn. We're hoping another door might open.
GARY STORCK I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to w...
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STEVEN MOFFAT Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.
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VERA WANG MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It’s not right. She should think of the future. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Rory: Amy. I'm gonna need a little help here.
Amy: Just stop it!
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STEVEN MOFFAT Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
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GARY F EVANS... Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be! He would dress me u...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
ABEL FERRARA If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
BEAU MIRCHOFF Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a tras...
STANLEY CROUCH who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
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DAVID SEDARIS You just take and take don´t you? Out there with your thumb in the air—not a care in the world, j...
DAVID SEDARIS My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for _who_ I am. Concentrate too hard...
DAVID SEDARIS They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of...
DAVID SEDARIS Motherfucker, you haven't got the fucking balls God gave a goddamned church mouse. You crawled out o...
DAVID SEDARIS Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertai...
DAVID SEDARIS He has a passport," my classmates would whisper. "Quick, let's run before he judges us!
DAVID SEDARIS Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where ...
DAVID SEDARIS We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy han...
DAVID SEDARIS If nothing else, life in the suburbs promised that you might go from day to day without finding shit...
DAVID SEDARIS Motherfucker, you try that again and I'll come in there with a fucking coat hanger and give you some...
DAVID SEDARIS I’d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn’t that we feared catching t...
DAVID SEDARIS As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
DAVID SEDARIS The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.
DAVID SEDARIS I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down m...
DAVID SEDARIS I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.
DAVID SEDARIS What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was...
DAVID SEDARIS I was a smart-ass, born and raised. This had been my curse and would continue to be so.
DAVID SEDARIS College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for...
DAVID SEDARIS between the disfigurement and the muzzle, it's nearly impossible to catch what she's saying. Always,...
DAVID SEDARIS Shit is the tofu of cursing.
DAVID SEDARIS I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective c...
DAVID SEDARIS Why refer to Lady Crack Pipe or Good Sir Dishrag when these things could never live up to all that t...
DAVID SEDARIS When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had no...
DAVID SEDARIS If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven...
DAVID SEDARIS The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as lo...
DAVID SEDARIS Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.
DAVID SEDARIS That man tried to picka my frienda’s pocketoni!
DAVID SEDARIS They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should...
DAVID SEDARIS All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is sa...
DAVID SEDARIS He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.
DAVID SEDARIS