"The American Way is so restlessly creative as……" — Louis Kronenberger
"The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness."
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Louis Kronenberger
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58 Quotes by Louis Kronenberger
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own,…
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a…
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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…
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish…
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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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