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Trouble Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

10 Trouble quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

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When life gets tangled, O'Rourke’s humor cuts through with a dry wit that feels both familiar and surprising. This handful of ten quotes captures his knack for turning everyday hassles into clever commentary, offering a quick, entertaining glimpse into his perspective.

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If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it…

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War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

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I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts.…

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Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody…

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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will…

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Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans…

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I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice.…

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There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be…

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Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard…

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When [George W.] Bush was elected, I think they thought I would have some sort of special "in" with that administration, to…

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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

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