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Quote by Knut Hamsun
You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art an

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. – Knut Hamsun

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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. – Knut Hamsun

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

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Age
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However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science. – Knut Hamsun

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Wisdom
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Other Quotes from
Art
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Theres a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. Theres a lot of sex, you know, in art. Theres a lot of naked women and men, and theres intrigue, theres fakery. Its a real microcosm of the larger world. – Steve Martin

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Art

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. – Christopher Marlowe

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Art

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that youre born a sinner and you dont really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called Antichrist Superstar. – Marilyn Manson

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Art

One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie. – Mark Stevens

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Art

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Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. – William Hodding Carter, Jr.

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Television

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous. – Shaun White

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dad

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness – not disaster – to human beings. – Kenichi Fukui

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Happiness

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza. – Joanna Newsom

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respect