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

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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children dont come into the world. – Karl Kraus

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A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. – Charles Peguy

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A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order. – Jean Luc Godard

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The reason why many people are so fond of using superlatives, is, they are so positive that the poor positive is not half positive enough for them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Writing is a struggle against silence. – Carlos Fuentes

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