"Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth."

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Karl Kraus

#Hands Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.”
“Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty”
“If someone disturbs you... they didn't kill you, but you really feel like "I wish this guy was dead"... you know that you will not kill him yourself, but if he gets struck by a truck or by a train, you would really be happy.”
“We are racing toward a world of abundance, and we are going to be increasing the quality of life for everyone on this planet. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.”

Source : "Peter Diamandis: Entrepreneur reaches to skies to benefit Earth" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. July 5, 2014.
“I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could not bear it. I think she woke, and dressed, and washed her face in cold water, and rubbed her shaven head. I think she walked among her sisters, and for the first time saw that they were so beautiful, and she loved them. I think she woke up one morning of all her mornings, and found that her heart was as white as a silkworm, and the sun was clear as glass on her brow, and she believed then that she could live, and hold peace in her hand like a pearl.”
“I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds!”
“Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.”

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