Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes
I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.
Quotes to Explore
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I bought a girl roses once.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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Traditional fiction has a little bit of spatial exploration but is basically a question of time - the question is, what happens next?
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Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.
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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.
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I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.
