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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. (Russell Baker Quotes)
A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a ‘megadeath’ a ‘million corpses’ than an embalmer would refer to a ‘loved one’ as a ‘stiff.’ (Russell Baker Quotes)
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I’ve been in the neighborhood. (Russell Baker Quotes)
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. (Russell Baker Quotes)
There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians’ advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say. (Russell Baker Quotes)
It’s always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it. (Russell Baker Quotes)
A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems. (Russell Baker Quotes)
A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems then you have to (Russell Baker Quotes)
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 (Russell Baker Quotes)
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age (Russell Baker Quotes)
Notice, for example, that people who talk about the joys of childhood are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys (Russell Baker Quotes)
She is dressed to feel dangerous, perfumed to exude suggestions of nights in Babylon, and painted to drive men insane. How can she possibly avoid facing up to the terrible chasm between dream and reality when, in this musky state of mind, she must sit at a formica bar and squeeze mustard out of a plastic bottle? (Russell Baker Quotes)
A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing (Russell Baker Quotes)
There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy (Russell Baker Quotes)
Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols.... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it (Russell Baker Quotes)
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on canned laughter grafted to gag lines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years (Russell Baker Quotes)
The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction (Russell Baker Quotes)
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses (Russell Baker Quotes)
There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living (Russell Baker Quotes)
The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings (Russell Baker Quotes)
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 (Russell Baker Quotes)
People seem to enjoy things more when they know that a lot of other people have been left out on the pleasure (Russell Baker Quotes)
In today's highly complex society it takes years of training in rationalization, accommodation and compromise to qualify for the good jobs with the really big payoffs you need to retain a first-rate psychiatrist in today's world (Russell Baker Quotes)
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism (Russell Baker Quotes)
Americans like fat books and thin women (Russell Baker Quotes)
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity (Russell Baker Quotes)
In America nothing dies easier than tradition (Russell Baker Quotes)
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses (Russell Baker Quotes)
Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity (Russell Baker Quotes)
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately (Russell Baker Quotes)