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It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

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Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.

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The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

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You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.

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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

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Biography

Nationality: Norwegian

Type: Author

Born: December 6th, 1968

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