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Writing isn't black magic. You just have to come up with an idea...

Writing isn’t black magic. You just have to come up with an idea…
– Karl Ove Knausgrd

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  2. All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to – Karl Ove Knausgrd
  3. There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy. – Karl Ove Knausgrd
  4. Go somewhere you know nothing about and see what happens. – Karl Ove Knausgrd
  5. Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatestof them all, because it is the only one that sins against life. – Karl Ove Knausgrd
  6. For life, it’s very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it’s very good. – Karl Ove Knausgrd
  7. I know who I am. Bloody hell, I’m getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, ‘cos if I’m not, I have no idea who I’m paying for. – Karl Pilkington
  8. Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful! – Nadia Scrieva
  9. People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had. – Fredrik Backman
  10. Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science. – C JoyBell C
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  12. Black funeral dress. Black heels. Black headband in my hair. Death has a style all it’s own. I’m glad I don’t have to wear it very often. – Courtney C Stevens
  13. Black rose, black roseWho’s gonna be your only one?Who’s gonna keep you safe and warm?Run, run my baby black roseI’m gonna find you home. – PM Highlanders
  14. I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. – Allan Dare Pearce
  15. You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea. – Benazir Bhutto
  16. my dearin an idea, by an idea, living through in idea, we are our own prisoners . – litymunshi
  17. An idea? An idea won’t get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world. – Nathan McCall
  18. Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea. – Jack Dorsey
  19. I don’t know about black or white magic I just know one type and that is your magic. – MF Moonzajer
  20. My dad liked to say that magic itself is never black; only the uses to which it is put, but mind magic is already tinted a deep, dark gray. – Christine Amsden
  21. I counted the living and gathered them within me and the light that broke through embraced all the life that I had within me… – Linda Bostrm Knausgrd
  22. I don’t want realism. I want magic. I live magic. I am magic. – Oksana Rus
  23. Scars heal when you learn to FLY.F(irst) L(ove) Y(ourself). – Shilpa Menon
  24. Further to this, Ove has the cat’s resentful stares to contend with. Something in its eyes reminds him of the way Sonja used to look at him. – Fredrik Backman
  25. …the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea. – Kevin Kelly
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  27. You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
  28. Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
  29. One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. – Karl Lagerfeld
  30. Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded. – Karl Marx
  31. Come out, come out, wherever you are… come out, come out, or you’ll end up in the tar… – Beatrice Rose Roberts
  32. From rocks come gold.From coal comes diamonds.From oysters come pearls.From caterpillars come ????erflies.From adversity come the great. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  33. I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard. – Karl Lagerfeld
  34. The bee’s life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water – Karl Von Frisch
  35. Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. – Karl Germain
  36. Inspiration can come in many ways: words, an action, an idea, or a person. It can come at any time, and when it does, let it move you. – Carlos Salinas
  37. Imagine life as … black can become white, and white can become black. But white can remain if you show love and respect. – Ibrahim Khidair Ali
  38. What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture? – Amandla Stenberg
  39. Black graffiti on a black helicopter. – The Covert Comic
  40. …The fact that it’s black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men. – Daphne du Maurier

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