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Russell Baker

Russell Baker

Russell Baker föddes den 14 august 1925 - US writer
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The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

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.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

There are no liberals behind steering wheels

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

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

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.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

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.

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.

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

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

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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