"I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing……" — Per Petterson
"I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books."
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19 Quotes by Per Petterson
Per Petterson has 19 quotes on this site.
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A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
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One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the…
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I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not…
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If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and…
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Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time,…
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You decide for yourself when it will hurt.
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But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take…
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...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing…
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To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and…
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I hate plots.
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I write about families. That is who we are.
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1989 was such a very, very important year in Europe. The wall fell, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and so…
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
— Margaret Atwood
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But…
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
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