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They were going to work, I could see it in their eyes, they had that vacant wage-earner look.
For a writer it was perhaps most important not to write, but to read. Read as much as you can because in so doing you won’t lose yourselves, become unoriginal, what happens is the opposite, by doing this you’ll find yourselves. The more you read, the better.
with a mouth of lush church grass I stand at the crossroads drinking the light of faith on the shores of eternity I lead my body, on like a dun horse in the dusk toward the forest somewhere
I had no future either, not because it existed somewhere else but because I couldn’t imagine it. That I might control my future and try to make it turn out the way I wanted was completely beyond my horizon. Everything was of the moment, I took everything as it came and acted on the basis of premises I didn’t even know myself, and without realizing this is what I did.
The cemetery’s full of irreplaceable people, as Einar Førde once said.”
FIRE Fire belongs to the group of phenomena that has never undergone any evolution. Change is therefore alien to its form, it will not be moved in any direction by the many fluctuations of its settings, it rests in its own completeness. Fire is perfect. But fire’s unique feature, that which sets it apart from many of the other unchanging phenomena that exist, is that it has managed to detach itself from the tyranny of time and place. While water is doomed to be situated in a particular place forever, in some form or other, as air and mountains also are, fire has this remarkable ability to
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