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"Oh boy! This is going to take months as my French is so rusty. But with the help of a dictionary, google translate and my French-speaking son I may get through it. It is only my fondness for Arnaldur that inspires me to rattle a few brain cells and tackle my first novel in French for over 40 years!" — Jul 18, 2013 03:37AM
"Oh boy! This is going to take months as my French is so rusty. But with the help of a dictionary, google translate and my French-speaking son I may get through it. It is only my fondness for Arnaldur that inspires me to rattle a few brain cells and tackle my first novel in French for over 40 years!" — Jul 18, 2013 03:37AM
“All great wealth was inconsistent with common sense.
(from 'The Fish can Sing”
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(from 'The Fish can Sing”
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“The light of the world had more or less taken leave of this man, for he was almost blind.
(from 'The Fish can Sing')”
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(from 'The Fish can Sing')”
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“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
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“The other option you have is to come to terms with this fucking life, as you call it, and put up with the suffering it involves. Put up with the suffering we all have to endure, always, to get through that and find and enjoy the happiness and joy that it brings us as well, in spite of our being alive.”
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“Somewhere, out in the infinite distance, lay the spring, at least in God's mind, like babies that are not yet conceived in the mother's womb.
(from "The Fish can Sing")”
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(from "The Fish can Sing")”
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