P. J. O'Rourke Modern Quotations
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- Oscar Wilde
- Gilbert K Chesterton
- Bertrand Russell
- Octavio Paz
- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
- P J Orourke
- C S Lewis
- Calvin Klein
- David Blunkett
- George Bernard Shaw
- Herbert Read
- Michael Leunig
- Vladimir Putin
- Ai Weiwei
- Ambrose Bierce
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Bernie Sanders
- Carl Jung
- Chiang Kai Shek
- Dalai Lama
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Ashamed Quotes
In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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Affluence Quotes
Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.