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It is the era that we take photos of, not the people in it, they can't be captured.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
I had never imagined that happiness could hurt so much.
— Knausgaard, Karl Ove
Not many people have ever handed in this much money," she said, smiling at Ove. "Many people don't have any decency either,
— Fredrik Backman
But what do you say to have any impact on a man who at one time admired the Spice Girls?
— Karl Ove Knausgard
I was the son of the man who had ruined everything.
— Knausgaard, Karl Ove
Writing is more about destroying than creating (195).
— Karl Ove Knausgard
The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
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.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
The problem is not so much that the world limits your imagination as your imagination limits the world.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.
— Fredrik Backman
He was the kind to cut through to the essence, and thus someone who made a difference.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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?
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Life's a pitch, as the old woman said. She couldn't pronounce her 'b's.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
God took a child from me, darling Ove. But he gave me a thousand others.
— Fredrik Backman
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.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Her head against his chest and whispered: We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on.
— Fredrik Backman
Ove points at him with exasperation. You! You want to buy a French car. Don't worry so much about others, you have enough problems of your own.
— Fredrik Backman
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.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
That is what you do when you breathe, you trespass, again and again you trespass on the world.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
To have an outside where you've come from and an inside where you are going.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
If dogs can smell fear, girls can smell nervousness, that was my experience. From
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatestof them all, because it is the only one that sins against life. — Karl Ove Knausgard
I feel almost physically ill in the presence of boring people who consider themselves especially interesting and who blow their own trumpets.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else's future. And it wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living.
— Fredrik Backman
Scars heal when you learn to FLY.F(irst) L(ove) Y(ourself). — Shilpa Menon
Ove doubts whether someone who can't park a car properly should even be allowed to vote. When
— Fredrik Backman
That was the best thing about the house. It was never finished. There was always a screw somewhere for Ove to tighten. On
— Fredrik Backman
The general perception of writers' lives is that they are exciting and desirable. But you generally spend most of your time cooking and cleaning.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
How desperate do you have to be to start doing push-ups to solve your problems?
— Karl Ove Knausgard
As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
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
— Karl Ove Knausgard
She liked talking and Ove liked keeping quiet. Retrospectively, Ove assumed that was what people meant when they said that people were compatible.
— Fredrik Backman
All erect dicks are bent. Or, if not all, then at least enough of them to be eulogized in a poem.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Sensitivity and strength of will are not a simple combination.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Oh, the beauty of it, how to deal with it? How to meet it?
— Karl Ove Knausgard
I walked around Stockholm's streets, modern and feminized, with a furious nineteenth-century man inside me.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Attributing to another author, Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
It wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living. Grief is a strange thing.
— Fredrik Backman
Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn't.
— Fredrik Backman
Understanding must not be confused with knowledge for I knew next to nothing
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Men like Ove and Rune were from a generation in which one was what one did, not what one talked about.
— Fredrik Backman
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.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
They were going to work, I could see it in their eyes, they had that vacant wage-earner look. I
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Ove has been a grumpy old man since the first day of second grade
— Fredrik Backman
The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
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 ...
— Karl Ove Knausgard
The very thought of Dad, the fact that he existed, caused fear to pump through my body.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Nine lives won't last you very long, will they?' says Ove. The cat licks its paw and looks as if it's not the sort of cat that likes to keep count.
— Fredrik Backman
You're the only boy who talks about clothes," Solveig said. "I know," I said.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Taxis, I loved taxis. Not the ones I came home drunk in, but the ones I caught to airports or railway stations.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Further to this, Ove has the cat's resentful stares to contend with. Something in its eyes reminds him of the way Sonja used to look at him.
— Fredrik Backman
Ove lays bare your soul.
— Mary Lydon Simonsen
All you have control ove is this moment. Chase it.
— Anna Kay Akana
So you have a job, then?' says Ove. Jimmy nods enthusiastically. 'I program iPhone apps.' Ove has no further questions. At
— Fredrik Backman
Who cares about politics when there are flames licking at your insides?
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Literature is what words evoke in the reader.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at.
— Fredrik Backman
Ove feels an instinctive skepticism towards all people taller than six feet; the blood can't quite make it all the way up to the brain.
— Fredrik Backman
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
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[L]ove is inventive to infinity.
— Vincent De Paul
All I can really tell you, laddie, is to live for today. For the moment. Wasting time is the biggest mistake we can make in lo-ove.
— Elizabeth Morgan
Ove is the sort of man who checks the status of all things by giving them a good kick. He
— Fredrik Backman
For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
I have a longing for fiction, to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
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.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
The thought of this could sometimes weigh me down because I wanted so much to be someone. I wanted so much to be special.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Meghan's in lo-ove," sang the phouka, making my heart stop. "Meghan's in lo-ove. Meghan and Ash, sitting in a tre"
-Tiaothin — Julie Kagawa
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
The needs of the moment always trumped promises of the future, however enticing the latter.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on. And that's how it was.
— Fredrik Backman
Yngve came in and said that John Bonham, the drummer in Led Zeppelin, was on one of the songs.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
Ove was destined and would strike as true as unexpected lightning on a clear day or never come at all. -Jacinta, with love
— Dean Francis Alfar
I am happy because I am no longer an author.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
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,
— Karl Ove Knausgard
this was not the end of the world, actually it was the world.
— Knausgaard, Karl Ove
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[L]ove ... privileges another to see us in ways that would shame us and disgust others without the intervention of love.
— William Ian Miller
I sat down on the sofa, strangely restless, it was as though the tempo inside me was greater than that outside.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
Off with my clothes, switch on the water, steaming hot, over my head, down my body.Should i have a wank? — Karl Ove Knausgard
Attending a poetry reading is like being in a hospital," he said as we left the next station. "Full of neuroses.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
I was the kind to endure. No one had said you couldn't become a better person through endurance.
— Knausgaard, Karl Ove
And when one of her girlfriends asked why she loved him she answered that most men ran away from an inferno. But men like Ove ran into it.
— Fredrik Backman
I have never understood the point of holidays, have never felt the need for them and have always just wanted to do more work.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
In our century even our dreams are alike, even dreams are things we sell. Undifferentiated, which is just another way of saying indifferent.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
When you have something to do life will not allow you to ove foward until you do it.
— Iyanla Vanzant
Now it was ruined. That was what I wanted. And now it had happened.
— Karl Ove Knausgard