“I almost congratulate myself that I can at least laugh at my own foibles and enjoy the joke, just as I cannot help, cynically to a certain extent, pointing out others’ foolish earnestness over nothing. My sense of humor is… — Wallace E. Baker Copy Share Image
“It seems impossible that I should be born to get so near to some things which touch the deepest strings of human conduct, the deepest emotions of heart and brain, to have such a keen sense of humor, to see… — Wallace E. Baker Copy Share
“I almost congratulate myself that I can at least laugh at my own foibles and enjoy the joke, just as I cannot help, cynically… — Wallace E. Baker Copy Share Image
“It seems impossible that I should be born to get so near to some things which touch the deepest strings of human conduct, the deepest emotions of heart and brain, to have such a keen sense of humor, to see the tragedy underlying it all, to feel a sympathetic note with the foibles and weaknesses of others, even as I… — Wallace E. Baker Copy Share
“The majority is always wrong, and the minority of supermen and degenerates—Zolas, Ibsens, etc.—must band together and overthrow the whole damn system which drives… — Wallace E. Baker Copy Share Image
“If I could always find something to interest me the solution might be at hand, but with the same dreary prospect of day after day of hell, hell, hell (the other word for business to an artistic temperament), how can I get a night’s rest? I lie awake and go through all the hot passions, wild enthusiasms, ecstatic feelings, morbid… — Wallace E. Baker Copy Share
“How could you do it? You have made a terrible mistake—to make me such a shattered wreck before I was out of my youth;… — Wallace E. Baker Copy Share Image
“if my nature is wrong, it is better to be wrong and be myself than to be what I honestly believe to be wrong… — Wallace E. Baker Copy Share Image
“Things cannot go on as they have been doing. Circumstances will force me to sink or swim, either to rise from this slough and… — Wallace E. Baker Copy Share Image
