"National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write."

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Source : ""Something that's not yourself." - An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#Writing Quotes #Identity Quotes #National Identity Quotes

“On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.”

Source : Bliss Carman, Richard Hovey (1905). “Songs from Vagabondia”
“In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.”
“It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.”
“I've done some good work and some not-good work.”
“Experience is a thorough teacher ...”

Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1864). “Cousin Maude and Rosamond”, p.64
“Yes?' Joe Solomon sounded like someone with far better things to do. 'Is there any homework?' she asked, and the class turned instantly from shocked to irritated. (Never ask that question in a room full of girls who are all black belts in karate) 'Yes,' Solomon said, holding the door in the universal signal for get out. 'Notice things.”
“It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.”
“I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.”

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