Top 14 Dag Solstad Quotes

#1. Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

Eric Hoffer

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#2. The Beatles did everything with down-to-earth humor, honesty, optimism, style, charisma, irreverence, intelligence, and a particularly spiky disdain for falseness.

Mark Lewisohn

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#3. In Heaven's happy bowers
There blossom two flowers,
One with fiery glow
And one as white as snow;
While lo! before them stands,
With pale and trembling hands,
A spirit who must choose
One, and one refuse.

Richard Watson Gilder

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#4. He couldn't imagine using the word 'rewarding' about a work of art - for instance that such and such a book has given me so much, taught me so much, etc etc. - but thought solely that it enlightened him, made him see, cynically and withough false expectations, so that he felt he was alive.

Dag Solstad

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#5. Our relationship to the past is marked by deep indifference, even if we do say something to the contrary, even if we mean what we say when we say it is a matter of the greatest significance. Because it is a matter of the greatest significance, yet nevertheless we feel bound to it by a sense of duty.

Dag Solstad

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#6. I'm kind of shocked that it's taken Hollywood so long to realize that so many great movie talents can come out of television. One of the reasons they do is that on TV you don't have the luxury of a film's big budget, and people have to compensate with creativity.

James Van Der Beek

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#7. Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions.

James W. Fowler

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#8. I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner ... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

Cameron Diaz

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#9. Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty.

Pauline Melville

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#10. A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

A.O. Scott

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#11. Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being, doing, having, or feeling.

Susan Jeffers

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#12. Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Ashleigh Brilliant

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#13. The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.

Peter Schiff

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#14. One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

Gloria Gaynor

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