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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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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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.
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
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Inanimate 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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The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
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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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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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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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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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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
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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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Can't anything be done about calling these guys student athletes? That's like referring to Attila the Hun's cavalry as ""weekend warriors
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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.