Russell Baker quotes
"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."
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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
"New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian."
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."
"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."
"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest"
"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens"
"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terr"