# Quote — P. J. O'Rourke, Republican Party Reptile

> The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts— squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.

- Author: [P. J. O'Rourke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/p-j-orourke.md)
- Book: [Republican Party Reptile](https://www.leafyquotes.com/p-j-orourke/republican-party-reptile.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/P._J._O'Rourke#Republican_Party_Reptile_(1987)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/p-j-orourke/republican-party-reptile/the-real-slums

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> To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/p-j-orourke/republican-party-reptile/to-really-enjoy.md)

> These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

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> Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

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Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md)