Jostein Gaarder Quotes

Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

Jostein Gaarder

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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
- People
- Time
- Different
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

B. H. Liddell Hart
- Man
- Reality
- Lies
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

M. H. Abrams
- Long
- Humanity
- Survival
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

Mal Peet
- Think
- Decision
- Write
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

B. B. King
- Play
- Church
- Taught
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

Ingrid Bergman
- You
- Audience
- Crying