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News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian satirist. repr. In In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader, ed. Harry Zohn (1976). Grumbler, in The Last Days of Mankind, prologue (1915-1922).

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