"Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it."

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Source : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

Louis Kronenberger

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“American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.”
“I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.”
“I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality.”
“When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.”
“The thing is, you don't even want to be mad about someone calling you fat because who the f--- cares? Like if somebody tells me, 'Oh, you look curvier.' That should not be a diss. The fact is, we live in a time where that is a diss. It's horrible we can be like, 'You look so skinny,' and someone's like, 'Thank you!' That's horrible. That's equally as horrible to me. So the time we live in, it's upsetting.”
“Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.”

Source : "Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on Their New Album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". "Coup De Main" Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.
“Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.”
“Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.”

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