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Quotes by Swedish Authors
"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."
"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more."
"I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful."
"Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time."
"Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines."
"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."
"I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out."
"The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized."
"Our heart is actually already open, but it is our judgments about others and ourselves that keep it closed. When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open. The way to healing is to learn to love and accept ourselves unconditionally. It means to embrace both our positive and negative sides with love. It means to love everything that we find inside ourselves. Healing happens when we bring everything that we find inside ourselves out into the light."
"Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing."
"You don't find the concept of illicit love at all engaging?"The concept, maybe. But in literature? That's like ordering a glass of tap water at a bar."
"I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow."
"I can't believe it. He is sporting a bona fide erection in the middle of class. All because of me.In history you learn about entire kingdoms crumbling into chaos because of a woman-or, in some cases, multiple women. I smile at Professor Delacroix, putting an extra bit of swing into my hips as I sashay out the door. I'm beginning to see just how easy it is to bring a man to his knees with a few flashes of bare skin, and the whispered promise of hot, sweaty sex."
"I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die."
"When a person works towards a goal, he or she immediately creates two possible scenarios or outcomes; namely success and failure."
"Our basic relationship to sex mirrors our whole relationship to life."
"There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me."
"Fear and hate create separation, love and joy creates belongingness and wholeness."
"The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year."
"Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun."
"If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody. When you are a nobody, love happens. If you remain somebody, love never happens.One becomes afraid of love, because love opens the inner emptiness.Love is not an effort. If love is an effort, it is not love.It is the same case with the ultimate experience, it happens when you do not make an effort. Then you can simply float with the river to the Ocean."
"The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure."
"Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is."
"You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception."
"Goals are set in life to enable concentrated and directed effort to be employed toward a desired end. Without goals, it will be easy to derail, and it will also be hard to track progress."
"I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there."
"I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists."
"The difficulties of life don't stop attacking your self-worth and self-confidence, you just have to repair and fortify every time. Recall and recite it; tell yourself what you are worth."
"The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries."
"I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying."
"When we have developed a trust in both our inner man and woman and they can nourish, support, communicate and cooperate with each other, a love begins to flow between them."
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