"Louis Kronenberger" was an United States/American critic and author. He was a novelist and biographer, and wrote extensively on drama and the 18th century.

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

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

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

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She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

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

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In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

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For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

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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 be considered a good guy.

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