Louis Kronenberger Quotes
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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If you're happy with who you are, that's going to show, and you don't have to apologize for anything.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
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Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
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When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.
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There are a lot of similarities to that situation. I remember sitting on the plane with Bob Boone, and he said, 'Sometimes when you let the air out of a balloon, it's hard to pump it up again.' That's how we felt.
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There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.
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The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
