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WRITERS > journalist, critic, playwright, poet > Karl Kraus
The discovery of...
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The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long.
Source: The Discovery of the North Pole, in Die Fackel (Vienna, 1909; repr. in In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader, ed. by Harry Zohn, 1976).
-- Karl Kraus, (Apr 28 1874-1936), Austrian journalist, critic, playwright, poet; He has been compared to Juvenal and Jonathan Swift for his satiric vision and command of language.