People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

—Russell Baker

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About Russell Baker

Portrait of Russell Baker

Russell Wayne Baker (August 14, 1925 – January 21, 2019) was an American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1982). He was a columnist for The New York Times for 36 years, and hosted eleven seasons...

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

—Russell Baker

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

—Russell Baker

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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

—Russell Baker

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

—Russell Baker

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I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

—Russell Baker

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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

—Muhammad Ali

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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

—Rita Mae Brown

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

—Robert Herrick

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The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.

—Shalom Aleichem

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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

—Bertrand Russell

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