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A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

P. J. O'Rourke
Funny, Sailing, Boat
P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.429, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.

P. J. O'Rourke
Funny, Hunger Strike, Clubs
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

P. J. O'Rourke
Funny, Real, Thinking
P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.126, Atlantic Books Ltd

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look.

P. J. O'Rourke
Looks, Normal, Appearance
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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 provide some sort of inside poop. Which is not something I'd be interested in doing, and anyway, I didn't. I actually knew more people in his dad's administration. So it was obviously winding down at Rolling Stone, and they were having financial troubles, too. They weren't getting the advertising, and the issues were getting thin. They fired Bob Love, who'd been my editor there for a long time.

P. J. O'Rourke
Dad, Thinking, Editors
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I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they do that. Anyway, it was always sort of ridiculous, me having anything to do with the youth culture, but now that I'm in my 50s, it's extra-double-ridiculous. They were losing interest in me, and I was losing interest in them. When I went to renegotiate my contract at Rolling Stone, I kind of halfheartedly asked if I could do half the work for half the money, and they asked if I could do two-thirds of the work for half the money. I ran that by my agent, since he can do math.

P. J. O'Rourke
Running, Nice, Math
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I didn't realize what fun it was [ been a reporter].

P. J. O'Rourke
Fun, Realizing, Reporters
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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

P. J. O'Rourke
Sarcastic, Laughter, Humorous

The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.

P. J. O'Rourke
Funny, Humorous, Japan
P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.191, Atlantic Books Ltd

We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization. We'd rather work ourselves into a screaming fit of puritanism and then go home and take a pill.

P. J. O'Rourke
Home, Drug, Pills
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.119, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

P. J. O'Rourke
Growth, Comedy, Kind
P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.257, Atlantic Books Ltd

I always thought there was some romance to that '30s leftist stuff, even though I'm a Republican.

P. J. O'Rourke
Romance, Stuff, Republican
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We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

P. J. O'Rourke
Doubt, Hunters, Language
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Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.

P. J. O'Rourke
Mean, Friendly, Operations
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I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time together socially, which is to say "drunk."

P. J. O'Rourke
Drunk, Office, Together
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Then basically what was happening was that it was the middle '80s, and Rolling Stone realized that a lot of their readers had voted for [Ronald] Reagan, and they were going, "Gosh! We need a Republican! Does anybody know a Republican? Wait a minute! I think P.J.'s a Republican!"

P. J. O'Rourke
Thinking, Waiting, Rolling
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I think in the [Bill] Clinton era, if people hadn't been spending vast amounts of time attacking Clinton, they would have found that they had essentially the same problems as they do now.

P. J. O'Rourke
Thinking, People, Bills
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Mike Kelly [from The Atlantic] called me up and said he could pay me less money.

P. J. O'Rourke
Pay, Said, Mike
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