Russell Lynes

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"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's sub writer, for self-respect."	Business
"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."	Humor
"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."	Art
"The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side…. After a long period of gazing (during which he may occasionally squint his eyes), he will approach to within a few inches of the picture and examine the brushwork; he will then return to his former distant position, give the picture another glance and walk away."	Art
"The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as "That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there."	Art
"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."	Art
"It rides horses and is rare in Southern California, except in Pasadena. In Texas it trades at Neiman-Marcus."	Art
"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."	Art
"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."	Art
"[Ragtime] was a fanfare for the 20th century."	Music
"[Ragtime] was a fanfare for the 20th century."	Art
"No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published."	Writing

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