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Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.

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David Sedaris
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 26
Comedian
Essayist
Humorist
Writer
Binghamton
New York
David Raymond Sedaris
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Wicked
Champion
Humor
Truth
Great
Love
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Paul

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The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.
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I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.
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I don't like travelling if I know I have to write about it.
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Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.
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... [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me naïve, but I seemed to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross.
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I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again, he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters
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Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.
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To spend your days in the company of naked men - that was the life for me. 'Turn a bit to the left, Jean-Claude. I long to capture the playful quality of your buttocks.
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Now, I like a church service, but this was one of those write-your-own-vows sorts of things. Neither of them had ever picked up a pen in their life, but all of a sudden they’re poets, right, like that’s all it takes — being in love.
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In my dream world gay people in America would get the right to marry, and not a one of them would use that right.
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It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.
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If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?
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I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.
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I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.
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I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.
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In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if it were an actual order, like, Cut the cake and lie facedown in that ditch between the cobbler and the little girl.
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I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.
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Snowball just leads elves on, elves and Santas. He is playing a dangerous game.
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All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started years before. I look back at things I wrote then and I'm so embarrassed - the writing seems so blocky and choppy to me and I wouldn't have wanted success any sooner because the writing was even worse.
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If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.
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