Russell Baker Quotes


34 Russell Baker quotes:



"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."
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"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
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"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."
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"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."
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"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
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"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools."
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"In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses."
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"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."
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"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist."
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"Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it."
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"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday."
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"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world."
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"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."
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"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."
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"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."
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"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
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"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."
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"Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
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"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
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