Russell Lynes Quotes

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• No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

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  Art, Writing, Editing

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• I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

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  Wise, Cool Status, Agree

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• Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

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  Sarcastic, Wise, Stupid

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• Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

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  Wise, Insults You, Insulting

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• Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

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  Wise, Being Yourself, Insults You

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• 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.

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  Laughing, Comeback, Insult

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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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  Men, Addiction, Tennis

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• I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

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  Sarcastic, Wise, Insults You

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• 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.

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  Teaching, Learning, Men

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• A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

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  Men, Gentleman, Behave

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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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  Sarcastic, Wise, Mind

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• Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.

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  Wise, Missing, Village

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• I'm sorry, I'm a little busy. Can i ignore you later?

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  Wise, Sorry, Littles

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• Sure, I'd love to help you out...now, which way did you come in?

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  Wise, Way, Helping

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• 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.

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  Games, Play, Secret

  Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins

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• Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.

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  Wise, People, Pay

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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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  Sympathy, Real, Heart

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• If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative.

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  Wise, Negative, Would Be

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• Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

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  Wise, Facts, Assumption

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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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  Honesty, Accepting, Candor

  Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins

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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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  Art, Mean, Challenges

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• Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

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  Wise, Stupid, People

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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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  Art, Distance, Sides

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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• Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

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  Drinking, Writing, Excellent

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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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  Truth, Class, People

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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