David Sedaris Quotes about Hurt

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Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

David Sedaris

Funny Love, Hurt, Real

«At The Movies With David & Sarah» by David Sedaris, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess what bugs me is that it was put to a vote in the first place. If you don't want to marry a homosexual, then don't. But what gives you the right to weigh in on your neighbor's options? It's like voting whether or not redheads should be allowed to celebrate Christmas.

David Sedaris

Hurt, Rights, Giving

David Sedaris (2013). “Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls”, p.75, Hachette UK

“This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you,” he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he was right. Worse than the boil was the stuff that came out of it. What got to me, and got to him even worse, was the stench, which was unbearable, and unlike anything I had come across before. It was, I thought, what evil must smell like - not an evil person but the wicked ideas that have made him that way. How could a person continue to live with something so rotten inside? And so much of it!

David Sedaris

Hurt, Ideas, Smell

"Old Faithful" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. November 29, 2004.