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Russell Baker Quotes - Page 2

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

Russell Baker, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

"Goodbye to Newspapers?". Article by Russell Baker, www.nybooks.com. August 16, 2007.

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

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

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

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

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

"Inside the Suit, a Man!". The New York Times Opinion Page, www.nytimes.com. November 05, 1986.

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

"The Sport of Counting Each Other Out" in The New York Times, en.wikiquote.org. November 2, 1967.