"The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt."
"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."
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Source: Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.9, University of Illinois Press
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