"A dead dog is more quiet than a……" — Per Petterson
"A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room."
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Per Petterson
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19 Quotes by Per Petterson
Per Petterson has 19 quotes on this site.
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One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the…
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I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not…
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If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and…
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Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time,…
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You decide for yourself when it will hurt.
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But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take…
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...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing…
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To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and…
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I hate plots.
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I write about families. That is who we are.
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1989 was such a very, very important year in Europe. The wall fell, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and so…
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Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions,…
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When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and…
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I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with…
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own…
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I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair.…
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When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens…
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In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries…
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo…
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