“When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
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Famous Karl Kraus Quotes
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.”
“Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms