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Russell Wayne Baker is an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1982).
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After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that it would cost me dearly in pain. At the age of five I had become a skeptic and began to sens...

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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

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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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In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

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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 ...

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Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

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We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons supported crushing weights in agonizing positions for what seemed like endless blocks of time. Exhausted men grunted and toiled like movers trying to get a r...

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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

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The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

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A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

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The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

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

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

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It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

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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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Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

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

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Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

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Author Bio

  • NameRussell Baker
  • Descriptionwriter and satirst from the United States
  • BornAugust 14, 1925
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAutobiographer
  • AwardsGeorge Polk Award; Pulitzer Prize For Biography Or Autobiography