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Russell Lynes
American
Critic
Born:
Dec 2
,
1910
Died:
Sep 14
,
1991
Always
Deserved
Game
Own
See
You
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bell hooks
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
Game
Our
Secrets
Seem
Conceal
Like
Surely
Revealed
Camouflage
Want
Play
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
You
Top
Laugh
Insult
Off
Ignore
Deserved
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
People
Down
More
More And More
More People
Rests
Higher
Attain
Never
True
Look
Always
Goal
Snob
Same
Token
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
Russell Lynes
Own
Those
Well
Accept
Polite
Always
Friends
Candor
Regard
Shortcomings
Your
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
Today
History
Architecture
Building
Gone
Live
Other
Our
More
Had
Name
Remotely
How
Than
American
Any
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
Russell Lynes
Good
Good Taste
Guarded
Bad
More
Only
Bad Taste
Than
Taste
The Only Thing
Estimation
Against
Thing
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
Man
Woman
Sometimes
Wife
Nothing
Definitions
Never
Almost
Another
Overlap
Very
Lady
Specific
Coincide
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Russell Lynes
Journalist
Every
Excellent
Him
Place
Which
Novel
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes
Intelligence
Cripple
Intellectual
Substitute
Cynicism
Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
Russell Lynes
Fanfare
Century
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Russell Lynes
You
Dark
Stars
Enough
See
Gets
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.
Russell Lynes
Death
Gift
Matter
Will
Lose
Appreciative
Minutes
Spoil
Within
Truly
Child
Any
Break
Really
Successful
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