American - Journalist | August 14, 1925 -
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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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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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
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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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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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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.
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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.
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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
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