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Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

Americans like fat books and thin women. – Russell Baker

Other quotes by Russell Baker

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

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Humor
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Russell Baker
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

Category:
Poetry
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Russell Baker
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. – Russell Baker

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Poetry
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Russell Baker
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Other Quotes from
America
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The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage. – Carl N. Degler

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America

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. – Walter Lippman

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America

America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples. – Aurora Raigne

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America

The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind. – Charles Francis Adams

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America

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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of ones own self. – Erich Fromm

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Im a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and Ill just drive him around and start singin. – Casey Abrams

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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. – Peace Pilgrim

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