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Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
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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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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The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.
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Educated people do indeed speak the same languages cultivated ones need not speak at all.
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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 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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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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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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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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It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
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For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.
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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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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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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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In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
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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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Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
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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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A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.
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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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The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
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