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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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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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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.
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Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
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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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He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
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