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Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his autobiography, Growing Up

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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.

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like 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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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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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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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

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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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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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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

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

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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

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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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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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