#lit

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#called #disease #morality #primary #secondary

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#console #idealism #itself #loss #new

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#conceive #grandfather #i #mind #reality

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote. ↗

— Peter Krause

#clear #country #go #i #lot

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that. ↗

— Peter Krause

#human #human rights #i #like #political

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever. ↗

— Peter Krause

#end #getting #groups #i #large

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#america #american #american politics #assassination #character

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#fiction #flourish #genre #genres #literary