"I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#People Quotes #Effort Quotes #Political Quotes

“Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.”
“I've got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.”
“The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it's perverse of me to ignore it.”

Source : "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.
“Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.”
“This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.”
“I'm for people clinging. I'm pro-clinging.”
“He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.”
“If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.”

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