Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000) (edit title/settings)

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• Hugh: David's boyfriend. Seems to be the yin to David's yang. Provides balance in David's life, and is a source of reason.
• Amy Sedaris: David's sister. An amazing comedienne, and seems to add comic overtones whenever she appears in the book, and David's life.
• Hugh: A well mannered homosexual male who is David's lover.
• Lou Sedaris: Add a description of this character.
• Alisha
• Paul (aka The Rooster): David's brother. A colorful character with a loose tongue. He's crass, but loving.
• Mister Mancini
• Bonnie
• Martin
• Gretchen
• Richie
• Samson
• Melina
• Joan
• Mr. Sedaris: Both the author and the main character. An interesting and intriguing guy, who is quite gifted in the art of story-telling.
• Mr. Sedans
• Lisa
• Neil
• Carol
• Komatsu
• Cindy
• Patrick
• Beth
• Miss Chrissy Samson
• Penny Midland
• Pascal
• Victoria Buchanan
• Madame Haberman
• Oliver
• Valencia
• Ann Magnuson

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• “A bell has all the personality of a cast-iron skillet”

• “Man, what you don't know could fill a book.”

  Lou Sedaris

• “To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests.”

• “Faced with the challenge of explaining the cornerstone of Christianity, we did what any self-respecting group of people might do. We talked about food instead.”

• “As a child I’d always harbored a sneaking suspicion that I might be a genius.”

• “I wondered then if, without the language barrier, my classmates and I could have done a better job making sense of Christianity, an idea that sounds pretty far-fetched to begin with.”

• “As a rule, I'm no great fan of eating out in New York restaurants. It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.”

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• (“When shit brings you down, just say ‘fuck it,’ and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.”)

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• I know it sounds calculating, but if you’re not cute, you might as well be clever.

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• I’m now told that this is not called “going to sleep” but rather “passing out,” a phrase that carries a distinct hint of judgment.

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• Having grown up with this in our ears, it’s startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are “We’re number two!”

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• The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it’s been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.

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• Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns.

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• It’s hard trying to explain a country whose motto has become You can’t claim I didn’t warn you.

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• If you happen to live there, it’s always refreshing to view Manhattan from afar. Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.

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• Speed heats the brain to a full boil, leaving the mouth to function as a fulminating exhaust pipe.

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• I absorbed as much of her abuse as I could understand, thinking — but not saying — that I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. Why refer to Lady Crack Pipe or Good Sir Dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied?

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Normandy, France
• Raleigh, North Carolina
• New York City
• Paris
• Valencia
• United States
• Chicago
• Manhattan

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. David Sedaris (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Chip Kidd (Cover Artist)

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Awards edit see section history

• Thurber Prize for American Humor (2001)
• Lambda Literary Award (2000: Humor)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3569.E314 M4 2000
• Dewey: 814.54

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• Books › Entertainment › Humor › Satire, General
• Books › Entertainment › Humor › Satire
• Books › Entertainment › Humor › Essays
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Essays

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