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J. Russell Lynes Quotes

«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.»
«Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence»
Author: J. Russell Lynes (Writer) | Keywords: cripple, cynicism
«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»
«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.»
«Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.»
Author: J. Russell Lynes (Writer) | About: Journalism | Keywords: journalist, novel
«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.»
Author: J. Russell Lynes (Writer) | About: Play | Keywords: camouflage, conceal, revealed, to seem
«The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it. If you can't top it, laugh at it. If you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.»
«The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.»
«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.»
«Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.»
Author: J. Russell Lynes (Writer) | About: Music | Keywords: fanfare, ragtime, The 20th Century