"As a person, I'm polite - I want to please."

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Source : "Karl Ove Knausgaard: 'I have given away my soul'". Interview With Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#Want Quotes #Polite Quotes #Please Quotes

“Mistakes and prejudices are as interesting as anything else. They reveal a lot about the mind set and culture of the time under consideration.”
“To fulfill you potential, you need to move out of your comfort zone and into the legacy zone.”
“What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!”
“Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.”
“I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't like the idea of having to solve problems every day for the rest of his life. My co-therapist told him that it was not required that he like it. She shared her own displeasure, saying: 'I remember that when I first discovered what life was like, I was furious. I guess I'm still kind of mad sometimes.' (135)”
“The pleasure was all yours.”
“I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.”
“If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.”

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