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  • Published: 12 May 1981
  • ISBN: 9780345297204
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99
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The Trouble with Nowadays

A Curmudgeon Strikes Back




A Crusty Curmudgeon and Charter Member of The Society to Put Things Back The Way They Were, bestselling author Cleveland Amory offers the last word on everything that has made a shambles out of modern life.
 
Servants: “I have often wondered where all the good, old-fashioned servants have gone. They must be somewhere, they couldn’t have all died.”
 
The Government: “The only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is that the Republicans are socialists and the Democrats are communists.”
 
Women: “The day I put ‘Ms.’ on a letter of mine, it’ll be either to someone else’s mistress or the Bureau of Msing Persons.”
 
Children: “Remember, children are, no matter how much we detest them, the you and me of tomorrow.”
 
Foreign Affairs: “Every damn president since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they’re just like a schoolboy with a new girl.”
 
Religion: “Nowadays Sunday is just one more excuse to do whatever you damn please.”

  • Published: 12 May 1981
  • ISBN: 9780345297204
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Cleveland Amory

Cleveland Amory founded The Fund for Animals, which campaigned against all forms of cruelty to animals throughout the world. He was a distinguished American journalist, satirist and novelist. Cleveland died aged 81 in 1998, and was buried next to his beloved cat, Polar Bear.

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