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Maren Hald Bjørgum
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The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
“But, you see, if being an intellectual means you like to learn, that you're curious and attentive and can admire things and be moved by them and try to understand how it all hangs together, and try to go to bed a bit less stupid than the day before, well, then yes: not only am I an intellectual but I'm proud to be one. Really proud, even.”
― Hunting and Gathering
― Hunting and Gathering
“At the end of the afternoon she tore herself away from the story to go and buy some tobacco. This would be tricky on a holiday, but never mind, it was mainly a pretext so the story could settle and she'd have the pleasure of meeting up with her new friend again a bit later on.”
― Hunting and Gathering
― Hunting and Gathering
“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― The BFG
― The BFG
“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
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“But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.”
― The Orphan Master's Son
― The Orphan Master's Son
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