Quote by Russell Baker
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it b

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

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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. – Russell Baker

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Goals
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You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when theres a big photo opportunity for a really good cause. – Russell Baker

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smile
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Anything that isnt opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesnt matter. – Russell Baker

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In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. – Danielle Steel

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The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that its not all about characters, relationships and themes, its also about place and the poetry of place. Its about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. – Mike Leigh

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You dont make a poem with ideas, but with words. – Stephane Mallarme

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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Poetry

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Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls… – Jim Harrison, Just Before Dark, 1991

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