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

Louis Kronenberger

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Louis Kronenberger
Age: 75 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
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The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
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Educated people do indeed speak the same languages cultivated ones need not speak at all.
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Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
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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.
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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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It is disgusting to pick your teeth what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.
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Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
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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.
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Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.
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