“Americans like fat books and thin women.”
— Russell Baker
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Category: women
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Ah, summer, what power you have to
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
— Russell Baker
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An educated person is one who has
“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
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Category: education
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I gave up on new poetry myself
“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
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Category: poetry
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Usually, terrible things that are done with
“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
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Category: society
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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back
“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
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Category: age
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What the New Yorker calls home would
“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
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Category: home
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities
“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
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Category: death
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An educated person is one who has
“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
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Category: best
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Children rarely want to know who their
“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
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Category: age
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need
“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
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Category: car
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