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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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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories — those that dont work, those that break down and those that get lost. – Russell Baker

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