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Quotes from Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut — P. J. O'Rourke

1947–2022 United States

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Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut (1996)

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut (2005)

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