Karl Kraus Quotes About Reading
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My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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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.
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When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.
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One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.
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I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.
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To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
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