Russell Baker's Quote - What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets

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What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. – Russell Baker

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Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didnt know. – Russell Baker

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In America nothing dies easier than tradition. – 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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Turn up the lights. I dont want to go home in the dark. – O. Henry

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I spend plenty of time in London and it doesnt scare me, but its a lonely place, even if youve got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldnt get home, if I couldnt get back to what I consider my real life Id be frightened. – Shirley Henderson

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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in mens clothes. – Calamity Jane

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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. Cmon – Van Halen doing Dancing in the Streets? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone elses music. – Eddie Van Halen

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