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What's hard to believe is that she turned the material into something both laugh-out-loud funny and, because of Notaro's courage and her lack of self-pity, life-affirming.
Pity the life he describes there borders on the monastic: "When I'm not practicing, I'm always at home.
I was 245 pounds and drowning in self pity and living a life of depression.
Hammett's prose can whip the pity out of life, and you're left to wonder whether he lacked caring genes, or whether lack of pity was a style and philosophy to which he aspired.
7. What a pity that in life we only get our (rewards, wishes, lessons) when they are of no use to us. 8. (Education, charity, time) is a waste of money.
"Lucky Me" initially appears to be the most disingenuous of the songs here, trying to evoke pity for a life lived in the limelight -- "I've gotta pose for the cameras/Even when my world's falling down/I still wear a smile".
Some would say a lucky choice, however many pity the work life of the average city banker.
I envy his certainty; he pities my city life.
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