Quote by Louis Kronenberger
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has t

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

Other quotes by Louis Kronenberger

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

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Religion
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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

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relationship
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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. – Louis Kronenberger

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Vanity
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Other Quotes from
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If you are writing about baloney, dont try and make it Cornish hen, because thats the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney. – Leo Burnett

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Advertising

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. – Norman Douglas, South Wind

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Advertising

As advertising blather becomes the nation’s normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. – George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twe

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Advertising

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. – Jerry Della Femina

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Advertising

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History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed. – Louis Fischer

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Hypocrisy

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. – Thomas More

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Sympathy

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you dont know how to read, you dont know how to decide. Thats the great thing about our country – were a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. – Ray Bradbury

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Education

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. – Herman Broch

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Decisions