Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
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I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.
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The Rock has definitely set the bar. He's in a class by himself, and he always will be, I believe.
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In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.
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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
