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Russell Baker Quotes

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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it  (Russell Baker Quotes) The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him  (Russell Baker Quotes) You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart  (Russell Baker Quotes) Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty  (Russell Baker Quotes) A day spent praising the Earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul  (Russell Baker Quotes) 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  (Russell Baker Quotes) 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  (Russell Baker Quotes) Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter  (Russell Baker Quotes) 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  (Russell Baker Quotes) I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world  (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  (Russell Baker Quotes) Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost  (Russell Baker Quotes) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down  (Russell Baker Quotes) Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder  (Russell Baker Quotes) Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity  (Russell Baker Quotes) Rereading A. J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were  (Russell Baker Quotes) The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs  (Russell Baker Quotes) Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things  (Russell Baker Quotes) 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  (Russell Baker Quotes) When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed  (Russell Baker Quotes) You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause  (Russell Baker Quotes) 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  (Russell Baker Quotes) It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic  (Russell Baker Quotes) Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost  (Russell Baker Quotes) People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure  (Russell Baker Quotes) 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  (Russell Baker Quotes) Life is always walking up to us and saying, come on in, the living's fine, and what do we do? Back off and take its picture  (Russell Baker Quotes) A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it  (Russell Baker Quotes) Long words, fat talk - they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self confidence has waned?  (Russell Baker Quotes) Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated the lesson of history  (Russell Baker Quotes)
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