Russell Baker

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. ↗

— Russell Baker

#century #comic #english #english literature #literature

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

— Russell Baker

#hear #listen #once #while #you

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity. ↗

— Russell Baker

#live #probably #publicity #you

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. ↗

— Russell Baker

#fun #gaiety #humor #late #lost

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. ↗

— Russell Baker

#categories #classified #down #get #into

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

— Russell Baker

#fortunately #just #old #people #say

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. ↗

— Russell Baker

#school #spoils #until #us #vital

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. ↗

— Russell Baker

#age #back #carries #good #had

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. ↗

— Russell Baker

#fear #glorious #gloriously #had #inspirational

Serious journalism need not be solemn. ↗

— Russell Baker

#need #serious #solemn