RBRussell Baker

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Russell Baker

Life dates: 1925 AD — 2019 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1972 AD

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

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02c. 1972 AD

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

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03c. 1972 AD

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

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04c. 1972 AD

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

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05c. 1972 AD

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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06c. 1972 AD

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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