Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Squirrel: Add a description of this character.
• Chipmunk

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• “It's not that they are stupid. It's that they are actively against knowledge.”

• “"You might not have realized how negative you were being - maybe you were passive-aggressive. Maybe no one cared enough to point it out, but I have to call things like I see them. Just as everyone does to me, only in the opposite direction. 'How come you're always so sunny?' they ask, and 'Doesn't your mouth hurt from all that smiling?' Some interpret it as overexuberance, but to me it's a kind of vaccine -- as long as I'm happy and I love everybody, I can't get sick."”

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• When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of “jazz” as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.

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• ‘You can’t very well complain about our complaining when you’re the one who’s given us something to complain about.’ ”

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• “Now, what’s wrong with that?” the cat protested. “It’s good to have a clean anus. Why, I lick mine at least five times a day.”

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• or the times when, rather than uniting you and your mate, the strangeness of another culture only made you feel more separate, more despicable and alone.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. David Sedaris (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Ian Falconer (Illustrator)

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• Library of Congress: PS3569 E314 S68 2010
• Dewey: 814.54

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