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

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. – Karl Kraus

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It’s not plagiarism — I’m recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do. – Uniek Swain

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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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The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. – Hart Crane

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