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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

-- Flannery O'Connor

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

-- Flannery O'Connor

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.

-- P. J. O'Rourke

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

-- P. J. O'Rourke

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

-- P. J. O'Rourke

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

-- P. J. O'Rourke

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

-- P. J. O'Rourke

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

-- P. J. O'Rourke

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

-- P. J. O'Rourke

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

-- P. J. O'Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

-- P. J. O'Rourke

I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand...

-- Peter Oakley

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.

-- Jerry Olson

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

-- Aristotle Onassis

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

-- Robert Orben

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

-- Robert Orben

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

-- George Orwell

Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

-- Ovid