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~ Russell Baker Quotes ~
« on: September 07, 2015, 01:50:01 PM »
Russell Baker Quotes


An American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his autobiography, Growing Up.
Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his autobiography, Growing Up.

Here are some famous quotes by Russell Baker.




I've had an unhappy life thank God.

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« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2015, 01:50:47 PM »
Ah summer what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

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« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2015, 01:51:15 PM »
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong fortunately.

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« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2015, 01:52:07 PM »
When compelled to cook I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.

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« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2015, 01:52:34 PM »
When it comes to cars only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

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« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2015, 01:52:59 PM »
When you're the only pea in the pod your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

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« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2015, 01:53:24 PM »
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime and should be taken in small doses.

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« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2015, 01:53:50 PM »
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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« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2015, 01:54:13 PM »
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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« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2015, 01:54:41 PM »
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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« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2015, 01:55:31 PM »
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false misleading fictitious mendacious - just dead wrong.

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« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2015, 01:57:51 PM »
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 20 or 30 billion dollars and vroom! There he is up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.