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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make co

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“Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.”

— David Sedaris, amazon.com

Tagged: Time, Patience, Survival

“This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.”

— David Sedaris, amazon.com

Tagged: Consequence, Truth, World, No one is safe

“High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.”

— David Sedaris, amazon.com

Tagged: glasses, Contact Lens, high school

“Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.”

— David Sedaris, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Falling In Love

“This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.”

— David Sedaris, amazon.com

Tagged: Coffee, coffee problem, Thinking Ahead

“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”

— David Sedaris, amazon.com

Tagged: sins, Holding On