"Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder."

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Source : Knut Hamsun, Gunnvor Stallybrass (2001). “A wanderer plays on muted strings”, Green Integer Books

Knut Hamsun

#Love Is Quotes #Murder Quotes #Violent Quotes

“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”
“Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.”
“I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.”
“Dancing came easy to me.”
“Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.”
“We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
“Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.”

Source : William Kennedy (2011). “Roscoe”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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