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“A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.”

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Book:N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

“Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in, and sometimes, like Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut or Leo Tolstoy or Francois Rabelais, a very harsh critic indeed. The others are sycophants, courtiers, servitors, entertainers. Shakespeare was a sychophant; however, he was and is also a very good poet, and so we continue to read him.”

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Book:Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“Der Teufel ist ein Optimist, wenn er meint er könnte den Menschen schlechter machen.”

Author:Karl Kraus