Quotes by Russell Baker

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really...

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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those...

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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began...

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Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do...

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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when...

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Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the...

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Americans like fat books and thin women.

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

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A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is...

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