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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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• The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Essence, Inspire, Special

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  People, Brain, Television

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• Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Sleep, Competition, Solitude

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• Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Humor, Practice, Growth

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• We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Failure, Thinking, Cost

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• One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Revolution, Conformity, Rebellion

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• A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Achievement

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

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• In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Thinking, Civilization, Desire

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• The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of the has-been-a shameful rather than a pitiable sight today-brings a sudden chill even to our sunlit moments.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Success, Winning, Sight

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• Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

  Louis Kronenberger

  May, Reign, Conformity

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 122, 1954.

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• From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Philosophy, Hands, Civilization

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• Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Time, Moving, Fishing

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

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• It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Gold, Use, Teeth

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• 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.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Men, Law, Might

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

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• The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Live Life, Assuming, Reason

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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.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Eye, Wind, Class

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• With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Action, Moral, Ethical

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• The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Ambition, Air, Adventurous

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• Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Faith, Science, Age

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• The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Ambitious, Busy, Stairs

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Writing, Gossip, Columnists

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Names, Important, Liberty

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