"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."

-- Rudyard Kipling

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“The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.”

Source : "Author Jonathan Evison on loss, survival and life’s epic journeys". Interview with Mary Ann Gwinn, www.seattletimes.com. September 24, 2012.
“When I look back on the past two decades of my journey today, I guess many people would interpret my artistic practice as a kind of cross-media attempt. I have indeed tried many different kinds of media over the past 20 years and collaborated in many different ways with people from many different fields. However, I like to understand this process as a kind of compensation for having once lost my "right of choice," an exercise of free choice and taking responsibility for any consequences that might result from it. To be honest, it's a bit of a paranoid act.”
“In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives. People aren't listening to poetry as if they're taking their vitamins. Instead, it's a popular vessel you can fill with anything. You could fill it with sass. You could fill it with rage. You could fill it with political statements.”
“But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?”
“I'm going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.”
“And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.”

Source : "At the Top: An interview with Jens Stoltenberg". Interview in Torgrim Eggen, 2001.
“The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.”

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