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Louis Kronenberger has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
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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…
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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
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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…
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
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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…
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
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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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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things…
— Harry Browne
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.
— Dorothy E. Denning
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What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are…
— Robert Greene
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Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a…
— Kerry King
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists…
— Lin Yutang
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Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving…
— Margaret Atwood
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I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like…
— Joanne Harris
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I…
— Rachel Cusk
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If meeting you is my fate then loving you is my desire. Achieving you is my need and making it true is…
— Jasmine Dutta
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