Quote by Karl Kraus
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. -

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. – Karl Kraus

Other quotes by Karl Kraus

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. – Karl Kraus

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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. – Karl Kraus

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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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I have succeeded in arresting some casual wing of thought as it flew, some transient wave of emotion as it subsided… – William Watson, “A Note on Epigram,” 1883

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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. – Orson Scott Card

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An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – Gustave Flaubert

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When a mans best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. – Edward Abbey

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