Tomas Transtromer Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
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We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.
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The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
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I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.
