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Holidays in Hell
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Holidays in Hell (1988) (edit title/settings)

In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This"

by P. J. O'Rourke (Author) (edit contributors)

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Now available from Grove Press, P. J. O'Rourke's classic, best-selling guided tour of the world's most desolate, dangerous, and desperate places. "Tired of making bad jokes" and believing that "the world outside seemed a much worse joke than anything I could conjure," P. J. O'Rourke traversed... read more

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  • “This little country had been nothing but in the news since 1979 -- linchpin of something-or-other, vital this-and-that. Every liberal crybaby had been screaming about the death squads. Every conservative bed wetter had been hollering about the communists. And I didn't even know what it looked like.”
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  • “It's hard to fathom another society, especially a troubled one, hard to figure its contradictions, measure its attitudes, see it in its underpants.”
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  • We are fools when we fail to defend civilization. The ancient Romans might as well have said, 'Oh, the Germanic tribes have valid nationalistic and cultural aspirations. Let's pull the legions off the Rhine, submit our differences to a multilateral peace conference chaired by the Pathan Empire and start a Vandal Studies program at the Academy in Athens.'
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  • Some writers, the young and the dim ones, think being near something important makes them important so they should act and sound important which will, somehow, make their audience important, too. Then, as soon as everybody is filled with a sufficient sense of importance, Something Will Be Done. It's not the truth. Thirty years of acting and sounding important about the Holocaust did nothing to prevent Cambodia.
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  • To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
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  • Trouble is fun. It will always be more fun to carry a gun around in the hills and sleep with ideology-addled college girls than to spend life behind a water buffalo or rotting in a slum.
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  • Better that we study to conduct war as decently as possible and as little as necessary.
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  • Western Civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of a happiness, it's also the only thing that's ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us.
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  • I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.
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  • People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly. Trouble doesn't come from Slopes, Kikes, Niggers, Spies or White Capitalist Pigs; it comes from the heart.
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  • I've been to your communist countries. They are crap-your-pants-ugly, dull-as-church, dead-from-the-dick-up places where government is to life what panty hose are to sex.
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  • Half the world's suffering is caused by earnest messages contained in grand theories bearing no relation to reality-Marxism and No-Fault Auto Insurance, to name two. Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.
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I've been working as a foreign correspondent for the past few years, although "working" isn't the right word and "foreign correspondent" is too dignified a little.

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INTRODUCTION
THE INNOCENTS ABROAD, UPDATED
A RAMBLE THROUGH LEBANON
SEOUL BROTHERS
PANAMA BANAL
THIRD WORLD DRIVING HINTS AND TIPS
WHAT DO THEY DO FOR FUN IN WARSAW?
WEEKEND GETAWAY: HERITAGE USA
THE POST-MARCOS PHILIPPINES -- LIFE IN THE ARCHIPELAGO AFTER ONE YEAR OF JUSTICE, DEMOCRACY AND THINGS LIKE THAT
CHRISTMAS IN EL SALVADOR
AT SEA WITH THE AMERICA'S CUP
INTELLECTUAL WILDERNESS, HO -- A VISIT TO HARVARD'S 350th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
IN WHITEST AFRICA
THROUGH DARKEST AMERICA: EPCOT CENTER
AMONG THE EURO-WEENIES
THIRTY-SIX HOURS IN MANAGUA -- AN IN-DEPTH REPORT
THROUGH DARKEST AMERICA, PART II: THE 1987 REAGAN/GORBACHEV SUMMIT
MEXICAN BORDER IDYLL
THE HOLYLAND -- GOD'S MONKEY HOUSE
EPILOGUE: WHAT THE THE FUTURE HOLD FOR OUR FRIENDS IN FARAWAY LANDS?

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. P. J. O'Rourke (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0871132400
Page Count: 257

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  • Library of Congress: PN6162 .O75 1988
  • Dewey: 818.54

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