Louis Kronenberger Quotes

• The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

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• Kings and Desperate Men.

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• One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

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• The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in People, American

• Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Topics in Age, Goal

  Tags in Outrage, Least, Excellent, Week, Outrageous, Say, Every, Time, Thing

• The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

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  Tags in Relationships

• Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

• Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

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• It is the gossip columnist’s business to write about what is none of his business.

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• There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

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• True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would-be-sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

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• Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

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• Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.

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• She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

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• In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

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• Many people today don’t want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

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• In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

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  Tags in Fanaticism

• Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

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• Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

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Louis Kronenberger (20)

Birth:	9th December, 1904
Death:	30th April, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Biographer, Critic, Novelist

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