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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.
Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.
Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side
There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we can't bear to throw away.
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.
Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.
I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
I'm sorry, I'm a little busy. Can i ignore you later?
For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.
Sure, I'd love to help you out ... now, which way did you come in?
There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.
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.
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.
Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it.
And I thought I had problems? Look at your face!
A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.
The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.
Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.
Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.
Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.
