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A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

Louis Kronenberger

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Louis Kronenberger
Age: 75 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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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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In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
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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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Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
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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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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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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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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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It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
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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 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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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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With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
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Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
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The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
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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 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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