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The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

Louis Kronenberger

Biography

Author Profession: Critic

Nationality: American

Born: December 9, 1904

Died: April 30, 1980

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Topics

Age, Destination, Our, Signposts, Trouble

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought. Louis Kronenberger

Art, Lie, Tears, Deep, Thought, Too

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. Louis Kronenberger

Innocence, Something, Like, Unconscious

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. Louis Kronenberger

Age, Time, Old Age, Week, Say, Goal

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. Louis Kronenberger

Life, Poetry, Advertising, America, Copy

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. Louis Kronenberger

Great, Religion, People, Believe, You

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow. Louis Kronenberger

Death, Privacy, Danger, Before, TV, Blow

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. Louis Kronenberger

Time, Shame, Real, False, Off, Well

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. Louis Kronenberger

Relationship, Someone, More, Ask, Closer

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. Louis Kronenberger

Vanity, Nothing, Others, Modesty, Fact

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. Louis Kronenberger

Detail, Know, Boring, Educated, Worst

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. Louis Kronenberger

Good, Gentleman, American, Human Being

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. Louis Kronenberger

Today, People, Anxiety, Want, Answers

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. Louis Kronenberger

Business, Gossip, Write, About, None

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