P. J. O’Rourke | marriage
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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P. J. O’Rourke | love
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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P. J. O’Rourke | legal
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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P. J. O’Rourke | learning
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.
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P. J. O’Rourke | hope
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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P. J. O’Rourke | history
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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P. J. O’Rourke | history
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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P. J. O’Rourke | history
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world – and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East – is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn’t there. It has to do with history.
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P. J. O’Rourke | history
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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