Russell Baker

Poetry is so...

Poetry is so...

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Source: Introduction to The Norton...

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Caution: These verses...

Caution: These verses...

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

Source: Introduction to...

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Life is always...

Life is always...

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...

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I gave up...

I gave up...

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

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Live by publicity,...

Live by publicity,...

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Source: On President Ronald...

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Life is always...

Life is always...

Life is always walking up to us and saying, Come on in, the living's fine, and what do we do? Back off and take its...

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You can't enjoy...

You can't enjoy...

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

Source: Introduction to The Norton...

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The goal of...

The goal of...

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

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Inanimate objects are...

Inanimate objects are...

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break...

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Happiness is a...

Happiness is a...

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in...

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There's so much...

There's so much...

There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.

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The worst thing...

The worst thing...

The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to...

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Research is a...

Research is a...

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

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Misery no longer...

Misery no longer...

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists upon it.

Source: In Webster's...

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So there he...

So there he...

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without...

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Anticipating that most...

Anticipating that most...

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its...

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The people who...

The people who...

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new...

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Television was the...

Television was the...

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of...

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What the New...

What the New...

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live...

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In America nothing...

In America nothing...

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Source: New York Times (14 May...

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