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Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

— Auberon Waugh

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There is no such thing as a normal human being. Nobody looks so eccentric as the man who is trying to look normal.

The price of privilege is eternal vigilance.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

Murder does not rank as a scandal, in the way that financial impropriety or (to a lesser extent) sexual misbehaviour might. Murder is more of a misfortune, part of the American way of life. It is considered in bad taste to bring up the subject in conversation.

I am convinced that intelligent educated and literate men in Britain are neither left-wing or right-wing, but are bored by politics and regard all politicians with scorn. That is my political creed, so far as I have one.

Introduction and Guide' to Another Voice (1986)

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