Russell Lynes Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.”

“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”

“We had a genuine love for each other, and we loved being around each other, and in the gang was where I felt love. Troit Lynes, former death row inmate of Her Majesty Prison”

“Unhappy people can be very dangerous, don't forget that.”

“Everything was new, everything was exciting. We were playing house, it seemed, playing at being grownups. When you’re in love, I suppose everything feels like a game.”

“…it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the first man of importance to me, you could not be the last. — Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1963 (age 21)”

“My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)”

“This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)”