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P.J. O'Rourke has 585 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is…
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Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!â€
— Jeet Thayil
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The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a…
— Marcel Proust
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Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is…
— Ray Bradbury
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Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it…
— J D Salinger
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
— Robert Burns
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