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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. ✨ Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). Dicta and Contradicta, p.118, University of … ▶
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work. ✨ Die Fackel, 2 July 1907
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms
I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one- … ▶

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms

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