Norwegians Quotes

• I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Hungry, Feds

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  If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 08, 2014

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• Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Sorry

  "Norwegian Wood". Boook by Haruki Murakami, 1987.

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• Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Pieces, Paper

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• Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 02, 2015

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• No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Death, Kindness, Losing A Loved One

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 04, 2012

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• What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

  Haruki Murakami

  Broken Heart, Healing, People

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• Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Hurt, Loss

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• I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?

  Haruki Murakami

  Want, Next, Remember

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 07, 2012

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• We're Norwegians. You know, the Vikings. My deadlift was 310 pounds. I mean, I was very, very strong - and I didn't take steroids. I did it all on my own.

  Eleanor Mondale

  Strong, Mean, Vikings

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• I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Association, Way, Pleasure

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• I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important thing is the storytelling, and I'm really comfortable working with all kinds of languages.

  Isabel Coixet

  Thinking, Chinese, Important

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Father, Men

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• The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

  Bill Bryson

  Giving, Worry, Television

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Summer, Winter, Hiking

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• I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

  Karin Fossum

  Writing, Cities, Community

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• Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

  Christopher Heyerdahl

  Father, Kids, America

  Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. 2011.

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• My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

  David Johansen

  Mother, New York, Father

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• My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

  Grete Waitz

  Philosophy, Expression, Use

  Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2015). “Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line”, p.48, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

  Jo Nesbo

  Crime Novels, Names, Fiction

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• I've never felt like a trophy wife. I have been able to learn a lot in my role. The fact that you do not have any formal powers does not mean that one does not have a good starting point to give their opinion on important value questions. I really feel that I can put the spotlight on many issues that are important in Norwegian society. And I am very happy.

  Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

  Mean, Important Values, Issues

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• I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

  Brie Larson

  Beautiful, Dark, Black

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember being very, very aware of gender when I was really young. Not necessarily in a bad way. Maybe it's a little bit because I'm Norwegian and how I've been brought up.

  Jenny Hval

  Littles, Way, Remember

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Being attacked by the press is not something I see as a problem, but rather a confirmation that I am on the right track. It is even better when they ignore me completely, like the Norwegian press does; that means they are really afraid.

  Varg Vikernes

  Mean, Track, Doe

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• It turns out that conservationism can be fun, with the news that the Norwegian red king crab - which weighs in at an impressive full kilo of juicy crabby goodness per shell - must be eaten as much as possible, because it's scoffing all the other fish in Norway. In fact, it would be remiss of all of us if we didn't eat as many of these buggers as we possible can every week because they now provide a genuine ecological threat to fellow marine life. So, c'mon vegetarians. Let's see how much you really care about the environment.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Funny, Kings, Marine

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