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“I've fallen for one girl too many who's wanted some variation of who I am and only that. It eats you alive.”
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“The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.”
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“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
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“I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to be around for a very long time. I want to be like a Sheryl Crow or a Melissa Etheridge or even a Madonna with how her career has lasted so long and she is still respected in the music business. That's really what I am aiming for. I'm not really looking for 15 minutes of fame.”
Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
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“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. 
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“Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.”
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“I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead to violence.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?”
Source : Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.145, Random House
