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"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
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"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."
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"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."
Boys

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Man

"Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people."
People

"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."
Memory

"I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do."
Life

"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
Nothing

"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
Family

"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
Man

"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
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"The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him."
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