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"Suicide—masturbation multiplied by itself!"
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"The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies in his simplicity and imagines he is telling the truth."
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Halldór Laxness
Halldór Laxness
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Halldór Kiljan Laxness was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway.
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"All that you ask for, you shall have."
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"Sell the country, bury bones. What else?"
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"Philosophy and theology have no effect on him, much less plain common sense. Impossible to convince this man by arguments. But humor he always listens to, even though it be ill humor. A typical Icelander, perhaps."
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"Oh no, better to be silent. That is what the glacier does. That is what the lilies of the field do."
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"I say, and have always said, and will always say: the fish that does not sing throughout the whole world is a dead fish."
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