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It is disgusting to pick your teeth what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.
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 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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One must never judge the writer by the man but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.
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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 test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
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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 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 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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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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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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Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
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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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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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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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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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For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.
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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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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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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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The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
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