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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.

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
Life
Solitude
Competition
Sleep
Sleeplessness
Social
Competitiveness
Part
Unending
Today
Exhilarating
Without
Exhausting
Much
Imposed

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