"Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out.""

-- David Sedaris

#Asking Questions Quotes #People Quotes #Office Quotes

“I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny”
“Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard.”

Source : "Icon will not throw in sponge" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2000.
“State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.”
“Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.”

Source : "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VII, Chapter 3, 1735.
“I know I've abandoned the Amish lifestyle, but I still keep a lot of those beliefs ... I know I've stepped outside the boundaries a lot of times, but I still try to remember what's important to me.”
“What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a mind: they are mixed up together. Shakespeare with a hole in his sock will not write the sonnet of a Shakespeare with socks intact.”
“Each man dreams his own heaven.”
“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”

Source : Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

You may also like:

Amy Sedaris
Actress
Augusten Burroughs
Writer
Chuck Palahniuk
Novelist
Craig Ferguson
Talk show host
David Foster Wallace
Novelist
David Rakoff
Writer
Ira Glass
Radio personality
Jonathan Groff
Actor
Kurt Vonnegut
Writer