Quotes by Russell Baker

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  • Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
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  • Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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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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  • Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
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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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  • New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
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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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  • People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
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  • Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
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  • The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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  • People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
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