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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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...

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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.

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...

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...

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...

The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect....

The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect....

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago...

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago...

It is better to play than do nothing

It is better to play than do nothing

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks -...

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks -...

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as...

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as...

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a...

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a...

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars

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...

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free...

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free...

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint,...

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint,...

It is better to play than do nothing

It is better to play than do nothing

My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky...

My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky...

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand...

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand...