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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
America
Copy
Life
Copies
Prose
Advertising
Turned
Poetry
Trouble
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It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.
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Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
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It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
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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.
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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.
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With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
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The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.
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Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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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.
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Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
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In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
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A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.
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The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
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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.
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