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Quotation by Louis Kronenberger
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A Mania for Magnificence Little, Brown (1972)"Last Thoughts" Company Manners, Bobbs-Merrill (1954)"Some Notes on New York" The Cart and the Horse, Knopf (1964)"The One and the Many" Company Manners, Bobbs-Merrill (1954)The Polished Surface Knopf (1969)Related Subjects
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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.
Louis Kronenberger (1904–1980), U.S. critic, editor. "The One and the Many," Company Manners, Bobbs-Merrill (1954).
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