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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

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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. – 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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With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale, 1849

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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. – Enrique Jardiel Poncela

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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. – Harold Ross

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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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We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought. – Chinese Proverb

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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. – James Martineau

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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. – William Butler Yeats

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