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A new collection of hilarious essays by New York Times bestselling author and television star Roseanne Barr.
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“No marriage of any kind should be attempted, ever, between heterosexuals.”
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“We goose up more drama than we need in order to combat the creeping fear that the true answer to the world's problems might just be to stay inside and mind our own goddamn business.”
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“There's defense, and then there's the insane policy of beating your plowshares into swords and acting threatened and victimized when you've got the biggest life-threatening shithammer in the world on your side.”
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Religion needs to be less about believing things and more about beholding things—sharing and healing and bringing people together, not separating them.
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The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America.)
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1½ cups flour ½ cup water 1 egg 1 tablespoon sunflower oil Place flour in a mixing bowl. Make a well in the center, and add water, egg, and oil. Mix with clean hands, kneading into a smooth dough. Roll dough into a rectangle. When dough dries, sprinkle with flour, roll out flat, and cut into strips. Cook in boiling salted water and drain. Can be used for soups, kugels, or as a side dish.
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The war on drugs is a war against poor people on street drugs waged by rich people on prescription drugs.
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The sooner you stop making love and start fucking, the better your sex life will be.
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Why fixate on the stuff we can’t prove, like the existence of prophets or messiahs or angels or devils? I don’t think any of it makes a gorgeous sunset any more gorgeous, or the wine any more delicious, or the kids any cuter. Why can’t we love and cherish what we can see and know? Can’t we just start with the basics—appreciating life and helping to make it better for everybody—without insisting on the existence of some elusive deeper meaning?
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“Remember, today is the first day of what’s left of your life.”
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politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.
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I saw a sign on the side of a bus in Beverly Hills that said, “Talk to your kids about pot.” So I went home and said: “Kids, do you know where I can get some weed?”
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“It ain’t the year, it’s the mileage.” Now, whenever smoldering anger or panic rises up inside me, the tired old Jewish woman within says, “For this you’ll risk a heart attack?” In fact, the prospect of most any kind of physical or emotional exertion gets tossed on the cost-benefit scale these days. And usually, I think: Anger, shmanger—I’m getting too mature for that. And by mature, I mean tired and lazy.
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- Dewey: 814.6
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