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Quote by Karl Kraus
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. - Karl

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus

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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. – Karl Kraus

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War
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The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. – Karl Kraus

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Psychiatry
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There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. – Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 1957 September 21st

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Writing

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. – Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

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Writing

An author plants the alphabet — and harvests flowers, nourishment, and weeds. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (www.samueljohnson.com/

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Writing

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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. РAndr̩ Maurois

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. – Mark Twain

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My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallaghers mum – she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs. – Danny Boyle

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Wit is educated insolence. – Aristotle

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