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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

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. Russell Baker »
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. Russell Baker »
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. Russell Baker »
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. Russell Baker »
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. Russell Baker »
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. Russell Baker »
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. Russell Baker »
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. Russell Baker »
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. Russell Baker »
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. Russell Baker »

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