Frasi di Louis Kronenberger

Louis Kronenberger era scrittore, critico.

✵ 1904 – 1980
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Louis Kronenberger: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

Origine: Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), p. 76.

“In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.”

This is a play on "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears", the last line of William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality_from_Recollections_of_Early_Childhood.
Origine: Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), p. 28.

“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.”

http://books.google.com/books?id=cI1KAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+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%22&pg=PA74#v=onepage
The Cart and the Horse (1964)

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

Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954)

“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 Spirit of the Age", p. 18.
Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954)

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

Origine: Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), p. 26.

“Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.”

Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life http://books.google.com/books?id=PiE0AAAAMAAJ&q="Conformity+may+not+always+reign+in+the+prosperous+bourgeois+suburb+but+it+ultimately+always+governs" (1954), p. 122.
Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954)

“On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit […] Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.”

"The One and the Many", Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954). Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill. 229 pages
Essay also appeared in Perspectives USA, Spring 1954 http://books.google.com/books?id=2UMIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22We+might+define+an+eccentric+as+a+man+who+is+a+law+unto+himself+and+a+crank+as+one+who+having+determined+what+the+law+is+insists+on+laying+it+down+to+others%22&pg=PA30#v=onepage
Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954)

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