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Рассел Бейкер — американский писатель, журналист, мемуарист; дважды обладатель Пулитцеровской премии. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. Август 1925 – 21. Январь 2019   •   Другие имена Russell Wayne Baker
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Рассел Бейкер знаменитые цитаты

„В Америке опиум для народа — это спорт.“

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The New York Times (03.10.1967)
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

„Культ социологии, только родившись, нуждался в описательном языке, и он его изобрёл. Существует множество мёртвых языков, но язык социологов единственный, который был мёртв от рождения.“

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«Come Back, Dizzy»
The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

„В Америке ничто не умирает так легко как традиции.“

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«A Little Bones Trouble», The New York Times (14.05.1991)
In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

„Железнодорожный вокзал? Это был своего рода примитивный аэропорт, только, чтобы до него доехать, не нужно было брать такси и отъезжать на 20 миль от города.“

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«Inside the Suit, a Man!», The New York Times (05.11.1986)
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

„Нью-Йорк — это единственный город в мире, где тебя намеренно на тротуаре может сбить пешеход.“

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New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

„Решённая проблема порождает две новые, поэтому лучший рецепт счастливой жизни — не решать проблем больше, чем нужно.“

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The New York Times (18.03.1965)
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.

Рассел Бейкер: Цитаты на английском языке

“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.”

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"The Plot Against People," The New York Times (1968-06-18)

“It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.”

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Letter to the editor [untitled], The New York Times (1968-03-24)

“A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.”

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"The Morals Charge," The New York Times (1974-05-14)

“In televisionland we are all sophisticated enough now to realize that every statistic has an equal and opposite statistic somewhere in the universe. It is not a candidate's favorite statistic per se that engages us, but the assurance with which he can use it.
We are testing the candidates for self-confidence, for "Presidentiality" in statistical bombardment. It doesn't really matter if their statistics be homemade. What settles the business is the cool with which they are dropped.
And so, as the second half hour treads the decimaled path toward the third hour, we become aware of being locked in a tacit conspiracy with the candidates. We know their statistics go to nothing of importance, and they know we know, and we know they know we know.
There is total but unspoken agreement that the "debate," the arguments which are being mustered here, are of only the slightest importance.
As in some primitive ritual, we all agree — candidates and onlookers — to pretend we are involved in a debate, although the real exercise is a test of style and manners. Which of the competitors can better execute the intricate maneuvers prescribed by a largely irrelevant ritual?
This accounts for the curious lack of passion in both performers. Even when Ford accuses Carter of inconsistency, it is done in a flat, emotionless, game-playing style. The delivery has the tuneless ring of an old press release from the Republican National Committee. Just so, when Carter has an opportunity to set pulses pounding by denouncing the Nixon pardon, he dances delicately around the invitation like a maiden skirting a bog.
We judge that both men judge us to be drained of desire for passion in public life, to be looking for Presidents who are cool and noninflammable. They present themselves as passionless technocrats using an English singularly devoid of poetry, metaphor and even coherent forthright declaration.
Caught up in the conspiracy, we watch their coolness with fine technical understanding and, in the final half hour, begin asking each other for technical judgments. How well is Carter exploiting the event to improve our image of him? Is Ford's television manner sufficiently self-confident to make us sense him as "Presidential"?
It is quite extraordinary. Here we are, fully aware that we are being manipulated by image projectionists, yet happily asking ourselves how obligingly we are submitting to the manipulation. It is as though a rat running a maze were more interested in the psychologist's charts on his behavior than in getting the cheese at the goal line.”

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"And All of Us So Cool" (p.340)
There's a Country in My Cellar (1990)

“While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement.
If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.”

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"The Unfairness of It All" (p.193)
So This Is Depravity (1980)

“The odd thing is not that we are in the business of overthrowing other people's governments, but that we can still be surprised when somebody reminds us of it. In Asia, in Latin America, Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East we have been propping up and knocking down governments more or less openly for the past twenty-five years.
It is an established policy. Everybody knows it. It is supposed to be done covertly, which is only sensible if you hope to succeed since publicity in matters of this sort can only make the natives restless and defeat the project. Imagine the chauvinistic rallying around President Nixon that would have occurred if Canada, say, had announced that her agents were going to destabilize United States society so that discontented Americans could heave the Nixon Administration out of office.”

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"Our Uncle Is Now Dorian Sam" (p.93)
So This Is Depravity (1980)

“I went to the Rayburn Building the other day on trifling business. It was an appalling experience. I had forgotten how preposterous the thing is with its pretentious megatonnage of rock and steel spreading acre after acre down the slope of Capitol Hill in sullen defiance to eternity and man.
It dwarfs the forum of the Caesars. Mussolini would have wept in envy.
Inside, one is compelled to dwell upon the insignificance of humanity. Not a single tiny wisp of beauty, nothing that is graceful, or charming, or eccentric, or human presents itself to the senses. Trying to imagine Clay and Webster in this celebration to the death of the spirit, erected to the glory that was Congress, is an exercise in comic despair.
What do we have? Banks of stainless-steel elevators. Miracles of plumbing. Corridors of cemetery marble stretching to far horizons under the most artificial light millions of dollars can create, a light that abides no shadow, grants no privacy, tolerates nothing that is interesting in the slightest degree.
Occasionally a small figure appeared in the distance, grew larger, then larger, then assumed human proportion, then passed and became smaller, and smaller, and smaller. Two ants had passed in a pyramid.”

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"Moods of Washington" (p.36)
So This Is Depravity (1980)

“All politicians are humble, and seldom let you forget it. They go around the country boasting about their humility. They are proud of their humility. Many are downright arrogant about their humility and insist that it qualifies them to be President.”

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"The Big Town" (p.283)
So This Is Depravity (1980)

“Being solemn has almost nothing to do with being serious, but on the other hand, you can't go on being adolescent forever, unless you are in the performing arts, and anyhow most people can't tell the difference. In fact, though Americans talk a great deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious.
In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.
Jogging is solemn. Poker is serious. Once you grasp that distinction, you are on your way to enlightenment.”

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"Why Being Serious Is Hard" (p.17)
So This Is Depravity (1980)

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