1001 Insults, Put-Downs, & ComebacksSteven D. Price “I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.”—Groucho Marx An insult can be offensive and infuriating, but it means nothing if you have a better comeback. 1001 Insults, Put-Downs, and Comebacks gathers together the very sharpest of these barbs from a wide variety of sources, with some of the wickedest put-downs from the literary, political, and entertainment worlds, along with many others. |
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