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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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All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.
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He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.
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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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Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.
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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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As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.
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The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.
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The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.
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I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family.
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People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.
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Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.
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I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend to think you just dictate your stories into a tape recorder. And I'm not necessarily insulted by that, because I think that just means that it looks easy.
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