"Preachers at black churches are the last people……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks."
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578 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
P.J. O'Rourke has 578 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it…
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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…
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Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
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Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak -…
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More Antithesis Quotes
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Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.
— John O. Brennan
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The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of…
— Michael Shermer
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Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it…
— Aaron Copland
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Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.
— Willie Garson
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Everything contains its antithesis.
— Juliet Stevenson
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Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense…
— Aravind Adiga
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A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the…
— Frank Herbert
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I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all…
— Gerhard Richter
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It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We…
— Martin Buber
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... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he…
— Unknown Author
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