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It is the era that we take photos of, not the people in it, they can't be captured.

But what do you say to have any impact on a man who at one time admired the Spice Girls?

Writing is more about destroying than creating (195).

You're the only person I know who can take communion despite not believing in God and not commit blasphemy. The only person I know.

He was a particularly detestable boy. He reminded me of myself when I was younger.

The problem is not so much that the world limits your imagination as your imagination limits the world.

I'd had the picture of John Lennon in my room all the time I was at gymnas and proceeded to hang it on the wall behind the typewriter.

But what we were best at, what we were really the kings of, that was buses and sitting around in bedrooms. No one could beat us at that.

He was the kind to cut through to the essence, and thus someone who made a difference.

Why would someone with such red cheeks who liked to go on long walks in the forest have such a big cock? I wondered. What would he do with it?

Life's a pitch, as the old woman said. She couldn't pronounce her 'b's.

For me, personally, it is very important that the days are exactly the same, so I have routines. I do the same thing every day.

But now he was married and had children, and even though he still had the boat the aura of island romanticism had gone. The long hair too.

That is what you do when you breathe, you trespass, again and again you trespass on the world.

If you really love me, you have to come to me without demands, I thought but didn't say, I wanted her to notice on her own.

For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good.

I, for my part, never looked forward to anything except the moment the office door closed behind me and I was alone and able to write.

To have an outside where you've come from and an inside where you are going.

If dogs can smell fear, girls can smell nervousness, that was my experience. From

Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatest
of them all, because it is the only one that sins against life.

I feel almost physically ill in the presence of boring people who consider themselves especially interesting and who blow their own trumpets.

The general perception of writers' lives is that they are exciting and desirable. But you generally spend most of your time cooking and cleaning.

How desperate do you have to be to start doing push-ups to solve your problems?

All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to

Attributing to another author, Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep.

Oh, the beauty of it, how to deal with it? How to meet it?

Understanding must not be confused with knowledge for I knew next to nothing

I walked around Stockholm's streets, modern and feminized, with a furious nineteenth-century man inside me.

In the modernist era the division between art and the world was close to absolute, or put another way, art was a world of its own.

The very thought of Dad, the fact that he existed, caused fear to pump through my body.

All erect dicks are bent. Or, if not all, then at least enough of them to be eulogized in a poem.

Taxis, I loved taxis. Not the ones I came home drunk in, but the ones I caught to airports or railway stations.

Why should you live in a world without feeling its weight?

Before i going out i stood in such a way that i could see the face in the wooden flooring. and i was really Christ.

You're the only boy who talks about clothes," Solveig said. "I know," I said.

I sat down on the sofa, strangely restless, it was as though the tempo inside me was greater than that outside.

I have never understood the point of holidays, have never felt the need for them and have always just wanted to do more work.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.

The thought of this could sometimes weigh me down because I wanted so much to be someone. I wanted so much to be special.

One's self-image not only encompasses the person you are but also the person you wanted to be, could be or once had been.

Literature is what words evoke in the reader.

Who cares about politics when there are flames licking at your insides?

For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.

Now it was ruined. That was what I wanted. And now it had happened.

In our century even our dreams are alike, even dreams are things we sell. Undifferentiated, which is just another way of saying indifferent.

The needs of the moment always trumped promises of the future, however enticing the latter.

Attending a poetry reading is like being in a hospital," he said as we left the next station. "Full of neuroses.

Off with my clothes, switch on the water, steaming hot, over my head, down my body.
Should i have a wank?

There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.

Sensitivity and strength of will are not a simple combination.

I would have loved to buy a hot dog from her, just to watch her squeezing the ketchup and mustard from the plastic bottles over the sausage,

Yngve came in and said that John Bonham, the drummer in Led Zeppelin, was on one of the songs.

They were going to work, I could see it in their eyes, they had that vacant wage-earner look. I

I had never been allowed to invite friends on my birthday, and nor was I on this one. I was sullen and surly, I ate the cake without a word ...