Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

Quote by J Russell Lynes

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

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

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building...

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building...

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're...

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're...

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it...

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it...

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely...

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely...

If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because...

If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because...

I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to...

I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to...

He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really...

He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really...

To love the game beyond the prize

To love the game beyond the prize

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the...

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the...

It's so much fun playing her [Ling], but I have this fear that people are...

It's so much fun playing her [Ling], but I have this fear that people are...

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing...

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing...

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and...

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and...

Let him who plays the monarch be a king; Who plays the rogue, be perfect...

Let him who plays the monarch be a king; Who plays the rogue, be perfect...

Like all great champions, Tiger has the ability to raise his game when he has...

Like all great champions, Tiger has the ability to raise his game when he has...

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with...

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with...

He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way

He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.