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Russell Baker
August 14, 1925 -
Nationality: American
Category: Journalist
Subcategory: American Journalist

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

   

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

    Topics: Children

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

   

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.

   

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