Russell Lynes
Russell Lynes
Russell Lyneswas an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth2 December 1910
CountryUnited States of America
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The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.
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Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice...
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Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.
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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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