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“Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”

Russell Baker · Parenting

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Russell Baker

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

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You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

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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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Russell Baker

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

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