# Quote — David Sedaris, Theft by Finding

> I'm finding it progressively more difficult to have my picture taken, especially now, when there always has to be a gimmick. The idea is that you have to be humiliated in order for your personality to shine through. You need to hang from the ceiling by a hook or crawl on your hands and knees through a puddle of something.

- Author: [David Sedaris](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris.md)
- Book: [Theft by Finding](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/theft-by-finding.md)
- Page: 329
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Sedaris#Theft_by_Finding:_Diaries,_Volume_1_(1977-2002)_(2017)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/theft-by-finding/im-finding-it-progressively

## More from this book

> The inevitable finally happened, just as I knew it would.

p. 387 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/theft-by-finding/the-inevitable-finally.md)

> Someone stopped Mitch on the street last night and said, "I need another seventy-five cents so I can buy a cheeseburger. How about helping me?"
>
> Mitch said, "Get it without the cheese," and continued walking.

p. 317 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/theft-by-finding/someone-stopped-mitch.md)

> Later I went to the design school and saw Kumar and Melamid, the Soviet dissident artists, who are funny. I sold them my soul for $1.

p. 52 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/theft-by-finding/later-i-went.md)