"Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else."

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David Levien

“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.”

Source : ""Something that's not yourself." - An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.
“Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.”
“I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.”
“I wanted to be a tragedienne. I only wanted sad parts. When mother read the press notices when I was on the road, saying I was a 'comedienne,' the tears rolled down my cheeks. I thought comedians had to have black on their faces, or red beards...”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Itâ€™s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But itâ€™s kind of unkillable, poetry. Itâ€™s our most ancient artform and I think itâ€™s more relevant today than ever, because itâ€™s one person saying what they really believe.”
“By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.”
“If you are nice, nice things happen to you.”
“Will now allow Reno to claim she is doing a vigorous investigation of campaign financing, when in reality Judicial Watch's public depositions show she is not. Not even John Huang's secretary has been questioned by Justice investigators nor has any other Commerce official. Commerce is at the center of the Clinton Administration's illegal fund-raising. In short, the plea agreements are sadly predictable.”

Source : "Two Democratic Fund-Raisers Charged In Campaign Money Probe" by Terry Frieden, www.cnn.com.

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