"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."

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Source : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 18, 1954.

Louis Kronenberger

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“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
“When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.”
“(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success”
“If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.”
“We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized,”
“Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.”
“I get enough of that on the news, so I didn't want to deal with fundamentalists or any sort of thing like that. I just wanted to keep it as lighthearted as the Cold War was, which obviously it was a fun time for everybody.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“Helloooo." Miss Ohio rolled her eyes. "I'm from the Buckeye State. We are serious about our tailgating parties. I can turn anything into a grill.”

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