"If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music."

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Source : "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgaard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the ways of nature share in the responsibility for this ecological spiraling down.”
“An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.”
“Football's football, if that weren't the case it wouldn't be the game that it is”
“Imagine settling for a life you can have because you don't have the courage to go after the life you really want.”

Source : Jill A. Davis (2003). “Girls' Poker Night: A Novel of High Stakes”, p.6, Random House
“Itâ€™s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.”
“Shareholder value is a result, not a strategyâ€‰.â€‰.â€‰.â€‰Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.”
“Only against death does man cry out in vain.”

Source : Malcolm Lowry (1965). “Selected letters”
“Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all.”

Source : Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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