# Quote — David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

> For the first twenty years of my life I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it's funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even make it to bed. I'd squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours later, having lost a perfectly good excuse to change my clothes. 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.

- Author: [David Sedaris](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris.md)
- Book: [Me Talk Pretty One Day](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/me-talk-pretty-one-day.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Sedaris#Me_Talk_Pretty_One_Day_(2000)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/me-talk-pretty-one-day/for-the-first

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> Friends always say, "How can you eat those? I read in the paper that they're made from hog's lips."
>
> "And...?"
>
> "And hearts and eyelids."

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> You can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up a little sometimes, but you can't kill him.

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