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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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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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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He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.
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Not that I believe you can have it all: I believe you can have it all, just not at the same time.
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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
