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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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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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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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He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
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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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It is disgusting to pick your teeth what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
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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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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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Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.
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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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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being the American wants to be considered a good guy.
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