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"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."

"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"

"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."
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"Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever."


"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."


"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."


"I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers."


"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."


"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."


"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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