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Are you a miserable old bastard? : quips, quotes, and tales from the eternally pessimistic

Are you a miserable old bastard? : quips, quotes, and tales from the eternally pessimistic

Book 2008

An amusing celebration of the grouchiness in life, featuring wittily downbeat sayings from famous grumps including P. J. O’Rourke, Dorothy Parker, Michael Moore, H. L. Mencken, Fran Lebowitz, Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx, and W. C. Fields; pessimistic tales of doom and gloom; advice on ways to spot a naturally grumpy person; fascinating insights into the science of grumpiness; and quotations from literary and fictional gloom-mongers.