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A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
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Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
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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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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
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