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Ole H.

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Born

in Finland

June 04

Genre

Fiction, Young Adult, Mystery

Influences

Knut Hamsun, Louis-Ferdinand Cèline, George Orwell and Charles Bukowsk ...more

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December 2011

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Let`s talk about Norwegian writers...

Why?
Because I like the sound of my own voice/ writings, and because there are several good Norwegian writers

First, we start with the chief

Knut Hamsun

Knut

This guy is probably the best known, and greatest norwegian writer of all time

His breakthrough came in 1890 and was called Hunger

Although he had published several works, prior to Hunger, this was Hamsun`s entra Read more of this blog post »

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Published on February 03, 2013 08:30 • Tags: bjørneboe, growth-of-the-soil, hamsun, helge-ingstad, hunger, introduction, is-palace, literature, nobel-prize, norwegian-writers, pan, tarjei-vesaas, the-birds

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Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Shorter Seventh Edition

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Quotes by Ole H. (?)

“All his elaborated arguments and beautiful sentences turned, under the influence of alcohol, into dust and slipped between his nicotine-stained fingers.”
― Ole Gunnar Håland

tags: alkohol, dust, writing

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“Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand”
― Ole Gunnar Håland

tags: admiration, society

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“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”
― Patti Smith

tags: hendrix, inspiration, janis-joplin, jim-morrison, music, originality, patti, smith

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“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

tags: depression, sadness

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“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

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“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: loneliness, secret-knowledge, secrets, solitude

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“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: paradoxes, science, truth

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