She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down,… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share
