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There are 35 quotes for the author Russell Baker

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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.
Subject: Progress

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

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.

I was converted from fool when my spine was somewhat reorganized. What amazed me was how fast a perfectly robust man looking forward to nothing more terminal than a night in Toledo can cease being alive once he pulls the dreamboat out of the driveway.

Disguises thinner than a Chicago stripteaser's work clothes.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

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.

It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with "gourmet" status.

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.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

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.

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on "canned" laughter grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

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