Tove Ditlevsen famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.
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Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.
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I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot.
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[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting ...
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my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.
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Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.
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Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.
-- Tove Ditlevsen
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Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.
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It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.
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I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
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At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.
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One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.
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Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
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Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.
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There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
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