David Sedaris
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And I love attention, right?
I love going on stage, and I love people applauding.
Love people laughing.
Just love it.
Don't know why.
how I'll survive when that's taken away from me.
And I think people like to see somebody who appreciates it, you know?
When you say you don't know how you'll survive without that, without that adoration, what are you afraid of?
It's not just the adoration.
Or the laughs.
It's earning it.
Do you know what I mean?
Like earning it, earning those laughs.
I mean, it's going to happen, you know, to everybody.
And you wind up in a nursing home and you're talking to a spatula, you know.
And hopefully when I'm in that condition, I won't remember how wonderful it was to have this career, right?
Hopefully I'll have...
I won't even know my own name, hopefully, because to be there and to remember joy and know that you'll never experience it again will be pretty ugly.
I said that like somebody who has stage four cancer.
There's nothing wrong with me.