For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease… — 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 Image
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 Image
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
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 Image
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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