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Karl Kraus

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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays
KARL KRAUS The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can neve...
A. R. ORAGE This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with ...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with ...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the empe...
CHINUA ACHEBE I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
TAIYE SELASI You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to...
ELLEN GOODMAN You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to ...
ASHISH KUMAR I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redempt...
MICHAEL CONNELLY He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write...
FRANCIS H. BRADLEY Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write...
FRANCIS HERBERT BRADLEY Bush has a real problem on his hands here, John: What honor should he bestow on Karl Rove?
STEPHEN COLBERT I wanted to write for someone who had real pipes. She can sing.
BOB COSTELLO Money last longer if it is gotten through labour,but if it is gotten easily it will fritter away.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I write many essays on whales. I love whales, especially orcas. And dolphins.
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we w...
F. H. BRADLEY Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in t...
ANITA DESAI Memories are moments that never go away. Karl Ffrench
KARL FFRENCH I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Ess...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In essence, Dean is paying all that money to someone who is keeping him away from his children.
DAWN NELSON Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
DAVID HERBERT DONALD He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write o...
CHARLES CHURCHILL I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH No, no, I will write no autobiography. I do not believe that someone can write a perfectly honest au...
CHRISTA WOLF Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.
AZZEDINE ALAIA I think Karl Rove should step down, ... This Week.
HARRY REID Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at l...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk
FRANK ZAPPA A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone w...
THEODORE WHITE Karl has been away for six months and we've missed him incredibly.
ANGELA KUBASA It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many sto...
ANNIE DILLARD I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can wr...
A. J. LIEBLING A consultant is someone who takes your watch away to tell you what time it is.
ED FINKELSTEIN Government should not tell him who should visit his child or who should not visit the child.
LAWRENCE WHITNEY A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone w...
THEODORE H. WHITE I think it would have been far more damaging if it would have been someone like Karl Rove (who was i...
BRETT BADER ... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who ...
JANDY NELSON Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA hono...
EMILIA CLARKE The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.
JUDD GREGG The men who make history have not time to write it.
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH The men who make history have not time to write it.
METTERNICH The men who make history have not time to write it
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, ...
W. H. AUDEN This officer was killed by someone who should have been deported when his asylum application failed,
DAVID DAVIS A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone w...
THEODORE WHITE A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have...
ASHLEY YOUNG No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
WILLIAM FAULKNER What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!
STEPHEN COLBERT We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
DEB CALETTI Any ideas on how we can make sure she does not get it? Can you ping Karl on this?
JACK ABRAMOFF This has got the attention of every CEO in America, ... How much time can the president give mediati...
ROBIN LANIER Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
DAVID BEN-GURION As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about ...
JAMES PAYN Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait...
PLATO Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time ...
KARL KRAUS Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
KARL KRAUS I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
KARL KRAUS Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
KARL KRAUS Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
KARL KRAUS Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
KARL KRAUS No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
KARL KRAUS How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they...
KARL KRAUS Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
KARL KRAUS Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
KARL KRAUS Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is ...
KARL KRAUS Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come i...
KARL KRAUS The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations fr...
KARL KRAUS Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
KARL KRAUS Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
KARL KRAUS A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
KARL KRAUS Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
KARL KRAUS Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the fo...
KARL KRAUS The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
KARL KRAUS When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
KARL KRAUS Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot e...
KARL KRAUS Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
KARL KRAUS He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adher...
KARL KRAUS The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
KARL KRAUS Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; it...
KARL KRAUS Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of...
KARL KRAUS Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
KARL KRAUS It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape...
KARL KRAUS Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot e...
KARL KRAUS A man
KARL KRAUS Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
KARL KRAUS The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relat...
KARL KRAUS A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
KARL KRAUS He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
KARL KRAUS Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
KARL KRAUS Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don
KARL KRAUS The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
KARL KRAUS One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs ...
KARL KRAUS Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot ex...
KARL KRAUS A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
KARL KRAUS Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of exist...
KARL KRAUS Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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KARL PILKINGTON For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
KARL PILKINGTON Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people abou...
KARL PILKINGTON Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
KARL PILKINGTON A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
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