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Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes

I am happy because I am no longer an author.

Karl Ove Knausgard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: norwegian
Birth: December 6, 1968

Topics

I Am Happy I Am Happy Because Longer

I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.

School Drama Where Endless Did

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

World Position Just Telescope Before

Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.

Rules Important Always Temporary

It's actually difficult to know what anyone wants these days. Tastes seem to change so quickly nowadays depending on the latest blog. The latest Facebook page. Twitter is somewhat important in telling you what you should want.

Change You Page Know Important Want

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

Surprise Reach Unexpected Place Try

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Daily God People Speak Think Better

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.

Fun Story Trying Write Basically

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

Russell Hornsby

Character Day End Of The Day End You

The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.

Michael Ondaatje

Past Place Us Still Safely Settled

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

Imagination Bold Young Cave Dinosaur

J. Tillman was kind of an alter ego. There was a lot I didn't want people to know about my real life. With Father John Misty, I leave everything in: so much so that I lose sleep before these albums come out because there is always a line or two in there where I'm just like, 'This is not going to go down very well.'

Life Father Sleep People Ego Lose

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

Sports Hurt You Hit

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