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“No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Writing #Dislike

“It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Honesty #Accepting #Candor
“Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Men #Addiction #Tennis
“Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Games #Play #Secret
“The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side”
-- Russell Lynes

#Art #Distance #Sides
“The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Art #Cutting #Islands
“What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Art #Bourgeoisie #Social
“Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Art #Expression #Blood
“There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Brother #Moving #Feet
“Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #Ugly
“I'm sorry, I'm a little busy. Can i ignore you later?”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #Sorry #Littles
“I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #Agree
“Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #Mind #Wander
“Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #Stupid #Effort
“And I thought I had problems? Look at your face!”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #Faces #Looks
“Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #People #Pay
“Sure, I'd love to help you out...now, which way did you come in?”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #Way #Helping
“The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #Silence #Insult
“Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #Brain #Facts
“I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise
“The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Art #Wall #Home
“If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #Tests #Negative
“Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #Missing #Village
“Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?”
-- Russell Lynes

#Wise #Humans
“A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Children #Successful #Parenting
“If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Laughing #Comeback #Insult
“A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Men #Wife #Definitions
“Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Drinking #Excellent #Novel
“Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Teaching #Men #Self
“Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.”
-- Russell Lynes

#Sympathy #Real #Heart

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