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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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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart,…
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She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,…
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Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee…
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Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much…
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she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The…
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Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and…
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What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it…
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