Louis Auchincloss Quotes About Today

• It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Art, Renaissance, Awful

• Today is not forever.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Forever, Today

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin: A Novel”, p.349, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Children, School, Emotional

• In my day, they were not interested in making boys happy. Those schools were made for the types of men who would become quite successful. It was brutal. They are not brutal today. They are country clubs today.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Country, School, Successful

• Crecí en los años veinte y treinta en un mundo de nuevos ricos, donde el dinero se gastaba desenfrenadamente, ¡y sigo viviendo en uno!... Las escuelas privadas están todas abarrotadas con largas listas de espera; los clubes -todos los antiguos clubes- están hoy abarrotados con largas listas de espera; los puertos están atestados de yates; nunca ha habido una sociedad más material que en la que vivimos hoy.... ¿Dónde está ese "mundo desaparecido" del que hablan? No creo que los críticos hayan mirado por la ventana.

  Louis Auchincloss

  School, Thinking, Long

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