Carsten Jensen quotes
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“That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.”
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“With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.”
-- Carsten JensenSource : Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.”
-- Carsten Jensen
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“Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.”
Source : "A comforting way of death" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2002.
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“Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.”
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Source : Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.”
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“As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.”
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“The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.”
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