Frases de Russell Baker

Russell Wayne Baker [1]​ fue un articulista de periódicos estadounidense.

✵ 14. agosto 1925 – 21. enero 2019   •   Otros nombres Russell Wayne Baker
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Frases célebres de Russell Baker

“Parece ser una ley de la vida estadounidense que lo que nos enriquece en cualquier lugar, excepto en la billetera, inevitablemente se vuelve antieconómico.”

Original: «It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.»
Fuente: Dehgan, Bahman. America in Quotations. Edición ilustrada. Editorial McFarland, 2003. ISBN 9780786415861. p. 199.
Fuente: Carta al editor [sin título], The New York Times del 24 de marzo de 1968.

“La gente parece disfrutar más las cosas cuando saben que muchas otras personas han quedado fuera del placer.”

Original: «People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.»
Fuente: Tibballs, Geoff. The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes. Editorial Hachette UK, 2012. ISBN 9781780337227.
Fuente: The Sport of Counting Each Other Out, The New York Times del 2 de noviembre de 1967.

“La cruel ley de la vida es que un problema resuelto crea dos nuevos problemas, y la mejor receta para una vida feliz es no resolver más problemas de los necesarios.”

Original: «The cruel law of life is that a solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.»
Fuente: Baker, Russell. All Things Considered. Editorial Lippincott, 1965. p. 155.
Fuente: The Big Problem Binge, The New York Times del 18 de marzo de 1965.

“En Estados Unidos, es el deporte lo que es el opio de las masas.”

Original: «In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.»
Fuente: Dehgan, Bahman. America in Quotations. Edición ilustrada. Editorial McFarland, 2003. ISBN 9780786415861. p. 82.
Fuente: The Muscular Opiate, The New York Times del 10 de marzo de 1967.

Russell Baker: Frases en inglés

“In America nothing dies easier than tradition.”

"A Little Bones Trouble," The New York Times (1991-05-14)

“In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.”

"The Muscular Opiate," The New York Times (1967-10-03)

“People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.”

"The Sport of Counting Each Other Out" The New York Times (1967-11-02)

“By any precise definition, Washington is a city of advanced depravity. There one meets and dines with the truly great killers of the age, but only the quirkily fastidious are offended, for the killers are urbane and learned gentlemen who discuss their work with wit and charm and know which tool to use on the escargots.
On New York's East Side one occasionally meets a person so palpably evil as to be fascinatingly irresistible. There is a smell of power and danger on these people, and one may be horrified, exhilarated, disgusted or mesmerized by the awful possibilities they suggest, but never simply depressed.
Depression comes in the presence of depravity that makes no pretense about itself, a kind of depravity that says, "You and I, we are base, ugly, tasteless, cruel and beastly; let's admit it and have a good wallow."
That is how Times Square speaks. And not only Times Square. Few cities in the country lack the same amenities. Pornography, prostitution, massage parlors, hard-core movies, narcotics dealers — all seem to be inescapable and permanent results of an enlightened view of liberty which has expanded the American's right to choose his own method of shaping a life.
Granted such freedom, it was probably inevitable that many of us would yield to the worst instincts, and many do, and not only in New York. Most cities, however, are able to keep the evidence out of the center of town. Under a rock, as it were. In New York, a concatenation of economics, shifting real estate values and subway lines has worked to turn the rock over and put the show on display in the middle of town.
What used to be called "The Crossroads of the World" is now a sprawling testament to the dreariness which liberty can produce when it permits people with no taste whatever to enjoy the same right to depravity as the elegant classes.”

"Cheesy" (p.231)
So This Is Depravity (1980)