- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Egypt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Drops
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Diaries
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
- Coal
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- Nov 07, 2020