"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."
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"The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art."
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"I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works."
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"I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong."
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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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"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."
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"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."
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"Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?"
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"The most effective comeback to an insult is silence."
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"Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?"
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"I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high."
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"The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless."
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"If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative."
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"Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission."
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"Sure, I'd love to help you out...now, which way did you come in?"
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"Your village just called. They're missing an idiot."
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"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect."
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"The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side"
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"And I thought I had problems? Look at your face!"
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"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."
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