Quote #13
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
More from Louis Kronenberger
- The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered…
- 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 closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
- 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…
- Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
- Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
- 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.
- Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.