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1904–1980 United States
Louis Kronenberger (December 9, 1904 – April 30, 1980) was an American critic and author. He was a drama critic for Time Magazine from 1938 to 1961 and theater arts professor at Brandeis University.
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Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
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.
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 trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
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.
Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfilment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.
Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
The Cart and the Horse (1964)
For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.
The Cart and the Horse (1964)
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
There are, of course, good happy endings as well as bad ones, but surely they are of a kind that in some way expresses happiness rather than glibly promises it..
The Cart and the Horse (1964)
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