# Quote — David Sedaris, Theft by Finding

> In first class, you count on your fellow passengers to make you feel good about yourself. You're supposed to look around with pride, telling yourself that these are your kind of people.

- 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: 445
- 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/in-first-class

## 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)