"...when it came to dying, I was scared.……" — Per Petterson
"...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really nothing to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember."
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Per Petterson
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19 Quotes by Per Petterson
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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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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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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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Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.
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