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Knut Hamsun

"Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work."

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"Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work."

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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."

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"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."

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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

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"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."

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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."

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Knut Hamsun
"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation."

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Knut Hamsun
"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth."

Life

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Knut Hamsun
"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content."

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Knut Hamsun
"In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you."

Man

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Knut Hamsun
"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."

Age

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Knut Hamsun
"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"

Life

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"Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!"

Life

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Knut Hamsun
"There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it."

Being

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"No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave."

Poetry

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Knut Hamsun
"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."

Poetry

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