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Russell Lynes
American
Critic
About the author
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
Russell Lynes,
American
Critic
#Friends
#Candor
#Incredulity
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Russell Lynes,
American
Critic
#Stars
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.
Russell Lynes,
American
Critic
#People
#Goal
Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
Russell Lynes,
American
Critic
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,
American
Critic
#Nothing
#Wife
#Man
#Woman
#Lady
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
Russell Lynes,
American
Critic
#Taste
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,
American
Critic
#Insult
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Russell Lynes,
American
Critic
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes,
American
Critic
#Intelligence
#Cynicism
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,
American
Critic
#Want
#Play
#Secrets
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.
Russell Lynes,
American
Critic
#Successful
#Will
#Death
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.
Russell Lynes,
American
Critic
#Architecture
#Building
#Today
#History
#Americans
#Name