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  • “I’ve heard that when one writes in a diary, they are secretly hoping that it will someday be read and appreciated by others. But have you ever read anyone’s diary? I doubt it, because they are unreadable. If life is a meal, then diaries are the toilets in which we shit out its vile remnants. They are litanies of complaints, grandiosity, and self-pity.”
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  • Find people you really respect and trust, and then at each decision, heed the most passionate voice.
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  • If life is a meal, then diaries are the toilets in which we shit out its vile remnants.
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  • It seems to me that sometimes the worst parents make the best grandparents. I’m not sure why. Maybe because there is enough of a generational separation that they don’t see their grandchildren as an extension of themselves, so their relationship isn’t tainted by any self-loathing.
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  • Everything that I enjoy, I seem to be able to do with two hands, a fork, and an iPhone.*
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  • “Make It a Treat” is similar in spirit to “everything in moderation,” but still very distinct. “Moderation” suggests a regular, low-level intake of something. MIAT asks for more austerity; it encourages you to keep the special things in life special.
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  • Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video-game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind’s pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality. Not to be negative.
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  • “If you want to enjoy these things—things like weed—you have to make it a treat.”
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  • “I’d better feel this, now,” and it remains a kind of mantra for me.
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  • I have a mantra, and that is: “Make It a Treat.” Look, there’s not much useful to take away from this book—it’s largely stories of a woman who has spent her life peeing on herself. But there is one way I really believe I can help the world, and that is to encourage everyone, in all things, to “Make It a Treat.”
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  • But both places of worship seemed to be these bizarre forums where authority figures told fucked-up ghost stories between spurts of loving encouragement.
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Like most children, I learned to swear from my parents.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Forward by Sarah Silverman

1. Cursed from the Start
2. The Bedwetter
3. My Nana Was Great but Now She's Dead
4. Hymen, Goodbyemen
5. Some of My More Moving Violations
6. Sarah Silverman: The College Year
7. Make It a Treat
8. Live from New York, You're Fired
9. Fear and Clothing

Midword

10. Explosive Diary
11. Me Play Joke
12. Calls from Schleppy
13. The Most Important Thing in Life: Being on TV
14. The Second-Most-Important Thing in Life: Love
15. Jew

Afterward by God
Thank-Yous

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Sarah Silverman (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Harper
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780061856433
Page Count: 240

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  • Library of Congress: PN2287.S383 A3 2010
  • Dewey: 792.70280924

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

This book is definatly not for children, though the only reviews on the back of the book are from children. Make sure you're an adult that can handle raunchy humor.

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