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Quotes by Russell Baker

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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There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.

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The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

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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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The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

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You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

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Inanimate objects are classed scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that don't get lost.

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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

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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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Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

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