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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
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"A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife."
"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."
"All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely."
"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."
"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."
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