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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

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Louis Kronenberger
Age: 75 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Turned
Poetry
Trouble
Funny
America
Copy
Life
Copies
Prose
Advertising

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