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It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
Louis Kronenberger
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Louis Kronenberger
Age: 75 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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Cincinnati
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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.
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Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
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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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Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
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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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The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
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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.
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Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
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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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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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The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.
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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.
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Educated people do indeed speak the same languages cultivated ones need not speak at all.
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The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.
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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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