Russell Baker Quotes - Page 6

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

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  Heart, Light, Heavy

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• Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

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  Literature, Trios, Novelists

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

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  Life, Live Life

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• Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

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  School, Poetry, Poetry Is

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• When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

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  New Beginnings, Opportunity, People

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• It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

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  Soul, Next, Next Time

  "Top 10 Commencement Speeches". content.time.com.

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• A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

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  Men, Soul, Earth

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• What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.

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  Fall, Long, Ears

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

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  White, House, Victory

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• Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

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  War, People, Culture

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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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  Birthday, Age, Rereading

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• Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

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  Honesty, Cities, Watergate

  Russell Baker (2014). “So This is Depravity”, p.107, Diversion Books

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• The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

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  Language, Birth, Sociology

  Russell Baker (2014). “So This is Depravity”, p.285, Diversion Books

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• Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.

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  Empty Mind, People, Brain

  Russell Baker (1991). “There's a Country in My Cellar”, Avon Books

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