Russell Baker
Russell Baker
Russell Wayne Bakeris an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and also hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 to 2004...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth14 August 1925
CityMorrisonville, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
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I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.
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How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.
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It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.
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Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
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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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Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on "canned" laughter grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
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Life is always walking up to us and saying, ''Come on in, the living's find,'' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
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Those people who taught Hubert Humphrey a lesson will still be enjoying the Nixon Supreme Court when Tricia and Julie begin to find silver threads among the gold and the black
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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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New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
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It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic
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A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.