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The best stand-up comics deliver searing honesty to the audience. They’re supposed to expose and clarify truths about the world as they see it. They heighten hypocrisies and spotlight inequalities, and they do it all for the crowd’s
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“How I became a heavy drinker happened entirely by chance, or if you believed in such things, as I did, fate.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“Any formula advanced as a resolution of the conflict will necessarily and inevitably fail if it is not squarely based on the principle of equality.”
― The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
“When you name a thing, you are giving a future. But you are also giving a past. A place in the order of things.”
― I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir
― I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir
“Beyond this, for the purpose of negotiations, the Palestinians ought to treat the United States as an extension of Israel.”
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
“She did a lot of things out of spite, the source of which she couldn't identify. as if she'd been born resenting the world.”
― What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
― What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
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