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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
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Jicin
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Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
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Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
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Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
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I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
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