"If I just concentrate I can walk into……" — Per Petterson
"If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it...."
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19 Quotes by Per Petterson
Per Petterson has 19 quotes on this site.
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A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
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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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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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More Concentrate Quotes
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In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards…
— John Banville
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
— Hans Bender
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served…
— Arnold Bennett
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We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and…
— Alvar Aalto
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
— Bear Bryant
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You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
— George W. Bush
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches…
— Andrew Carnegie
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and…
— Benjamin Carson
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself…
— N. Scott Momaday
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