Russell Lynes Quotes
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And I thought I had problems? Look at your face!
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Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?
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Camouflage is a game we all like to play
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For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.
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Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?
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I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.
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Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.
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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
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There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.
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The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side
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The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
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Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.
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Sure, I'd love to help you out...now, which way did you come in?
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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.
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If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative.
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A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.
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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.
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I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
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The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.
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Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.
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Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own.
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Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.
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In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
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Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
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Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.
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I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.
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