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The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
Louis Kronenberger
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Louis Kronenberger
Age: 75 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.
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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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The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
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For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.
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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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Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.
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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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With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
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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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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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Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.
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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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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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Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
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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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We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.
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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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One must never judge the writer by the man but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.
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