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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Karl Kraus

Time, Reading, Book

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.

Karl Kraus

Reading, Writing, Request

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

Karl Kraus

Reading, Kind, Wells

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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.

Karl Kraus

Education, Reading, Pride

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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.

Karl Kraus

Reading, Writing, May

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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

Book, Reading, Butterfly

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”