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Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

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Joan Rivers
Age: 81 †
Born: 1933
Born: June 8
Died: 2014
Died: September 4
Comedian
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Film Director
Film Producer
Journalist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Brooklyn
New York
Joan Alexandra Molinsky
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You're college graduates now, so use your education. Remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.
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My sex life is so bad, my G-spot has been declared a historical landmark.
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[When told that her grandchild had her nose:] I didn't get this nose until I was thirty-four.
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Whatever you do to recover from a loss, people will be critical because they believe that the only way to recover is their way. And you will even run into some people who should be run into by rhinos because they actually don't want to see you get over your tragedy at all grief is a spectator sport for them.
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There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.
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My face has been tucked in more times than a bedsheet at the Holiday Inn.
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When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.
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