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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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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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I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg

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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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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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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. – Washington Irving

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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. – Alice Miller

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Education

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a womans right to choose. I believe in marriage equality. – Andrew Cuomo

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Equality

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Writing