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One Quotes by Louis Kronenberger
- One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
- The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories;…
- One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.
- Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.
- 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…
- 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,…
- The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is…
- In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is…
- We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law…
- We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail…
- 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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