Carolina QuotesSometimes when you're stoned it's fun to sit around and think of who might play you in the movie version of your life. What makes it fun is that no one is actually going to make a movie of your life. I'd worried that, in making the movie, the director might get me and my family wrong, but now a worse thought occurred to me: What if he got us right?
David Sedaris Connected to the Carolinas
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Essay, "Repeat after me" - p.147, 155
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- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
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- 2004
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- p.147
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“Sometimes when you're stoned it's fun to sit around and thin…” David Sedaris. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-5EC3248AF8. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/5ec3248af8
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