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There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Jicin
Like
Two
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Form
Belong
Together
Content
Body
Kinds
Soul
Writers
Firsts
Aren
First
Clothes
Kind
Second

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