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.
Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear. - Russell Baker
Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
- Russell Baker
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. - Russell Baker
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictiti… - Russell Baker
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictiti…
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 writ… - 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 writ…
Reality is the only obstacle to happiness. - Russell Baker
Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.
The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can ea… - Russell Baker
The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can ea…
The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.... - Russell Baker
The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses. - Russell Baker
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
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 picture. - Russell Baker
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 picture.
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