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Russell Baker

"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist."

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"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

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"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
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"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."
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"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
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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."
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