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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.

~Russell Lynes

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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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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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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.

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

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Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

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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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Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

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A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: December 2nd, 1910

Died: September 14th, 1991

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