Per Petterson Quotes
There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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I have to say, self-servingly, I downloaded my own comics. I downloaded 'Batman: Hush.'
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The key to good management is keeping the nine guys who hate your guts away from the nine guys who haven't made up their minds.
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In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.
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The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
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Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."
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There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?
