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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' then again, i like to think of anything stupid i've done as a 'learning experience.' it makes me feel less stupid.

-P. J. O'Rourke

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I Like To Think Of My Behavior

P. J. O'Rourke

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' then again, i like to think of anything stupid i've done as a 'learning experience.' it makes me feel less stupid.

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I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and i just never think that. i like bad behavior, i've always liked bad behavior, i'm a fan of bad behavior, and i don't think you have to justify bad behavior.

When our embassy is attacked in benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. when russia invades ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. when syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. when iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. when north korea attacks sony pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. in other words, mrs. clinton, you cannot lead from behind. we must respond when we are attacked or provoked.

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. rome'll decline and fall again, cortés'll lay tenochtitlán to waste again, and later, ewing will sail again, adrian'll be blown to pieces again, you and i'll sleep under the corsican stars again, i'll come to bruges again, fall in and out of love with eva again, you'll read this letter again, the sun'll grow cold again. nietzsche's gramophone record. when it ends, the old one plays it again, for an eternity of eternities.

A lot of times people get to a certain age and they quit. i always felt sorry for the frank capras, the billy wilders, directors like that, because they quit in their sixties. why would you quit? think of the great work they could've done in their sixties, seventies, and on up.

We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. the great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. we were going in search of something deeper.

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