Karl Ove Knausgaard Quotes

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

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• Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Culture
  • Interesting

• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Day
  • Find

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Life
  • Think
  • Successful

• There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Book
  • Reality

• I believe that everything has a shelf life.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Free
  • Care

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Rap

• Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • America
  • Think
  • Myself

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

• It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Play
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  • Losing

• Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • World
  • Work
  • Believe

• 'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Work
  • American
  • History

• In a family of faith, you don't believe in divorce; you believe you can make it.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Faith

• And there shall be for thee all soft delightThat shadowy thought can win,A bright torch, and a casement ope at night,To let the warm Love in!

  

  John Keats
  • Night

• If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! and the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.

  

  Charles Babbage
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • Ignorance

• Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Important
  • Literature