Louis Kronenberger Quotes

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Funny, Time, Goal

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Vices, Harm, Mankind

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• The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Science, People, Interesting

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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.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Faith, Believe, People

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 14, 1954.

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• Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Money Isn't Everything

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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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.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Real, Sin, Shame

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 76, 1954.

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• Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Individuality

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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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.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Funny, Life, America

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 18, 1954.

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Details, Boring, Worst

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• On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit. Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Men, Ice Cream, Law

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Humility, Vanity, Facts

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Birthday, Age, Aging

  1954 Company Manners,'The Spirit of The Age'.

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Love Relationship, Old Love, Our Relationship

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• The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories; one spent with interesting people has merely a sort of bouquet.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Memories, People, Interesting

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• For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Change, Distance, Moving

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

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  Civilization, Effort, Age

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• In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Art, Lying, Tears

  "A Mania for Magnificence".

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Food, Rose, Cooking

  Louis Kronenberger (1970). “The Cutting Edge”

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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.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Friendship, May, Close Friends

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• The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Common Sense, Creative, Way

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• Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Ego, Trying, Naked

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Adversity, Down And, Invention

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• For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

  Louis Kronenberger

  People, Brain, Television

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• On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Morning, Population, Wake Up

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• In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Talking, People, Together

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