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title: "1 Midwesterner Quotes By James Hynes"
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> [“A Michigander can be every bit as prickly as a New Yorker, just not out loud. The Midwesterner’s credo: keep it to yourself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hynes/a-michigander-can-be-every-bit-as-prickly-as-a-new-yorker-just-not/)

James Hynes

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## More by James Hynes

> [“A Michigander can be every bit as prickly as a New Yorker, just not out loud. The Midwesterner’s credo: keep it to yourself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hynes/a-michigander-can-be-every-bit-as-prickly-as-a-new-yorker-just-not/)

James Hynes

> [“Indeed, it was not unusual for the dais to be littered with panties and boxer shorts after one of Branwell's talks at the MLA.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hynes/indeed-it-was-not-unusual-for-the-dais-to-be-littered-with-panties/)

James Hynes

> [“The only distinguishing characteristic of a literature professor at the millennium was that he or she wrote about other people's writing. Apart from that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hynes/the-only-distinguishing-characteristic-of-a-literature-professor-at/)

James Hynes

> [“An advertising man understands even more viscerally than an academic that the world is made of discourse, Pescecane argued; he understands in his bones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hynes/an-advertising-man-understands-even-more-viscerally-than-an-academic/)

James Hynes

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