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| Russell Lynes
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes. 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. Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it's probably deserved. 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. What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi. |
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