About the book: 2016 / THREE BESTSELLERS IN ONE VOLUME. A complete edition of the memoirs, witticisms and aphorisms of the great actress. This is what Ranevskaya said: “Beauty is a terrible force. And every year it gets worse and worse...” “Money, of course, is dirt, but how healing!” “You can’t find an ass through which we haven’t already done something” “If life turns its way to you, fuck it, give it a kick in the ass!” “I live with my head held high. How could it be otherwise if we’re up to our necks in the city outside?” But this book is more than a collection of unknown anecdotes and jokes of a well-deserved foul-mouthed woman and people's mocker of the Soviet Union, who never minced words and knew how to ridicule outright, whose outrageous jokes immediately became “winged”, and obscene revelations, vulgar wisdom and “bad advice” "are still relevant today. This is also the confession of the great tragic actress, who all her life was forced to wear a jester's mask and only when alone with herself could laugh to tears, through tears.