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Quotes from There's a Country in My Cellar — Russell Baker

1925–2019 United States

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The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

There's a Country in My Cellar (1990)

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

There's a Country in My Cellar (1990)

Of all the people insistently expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing headlines to trample him flat.

There's a Country in My Cellar (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Russell Baker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.