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Karen Blixen Quotes: 6

  • I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

  • You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

    Out of Africa

  • When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

  • God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

  • A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

    Out of Africa

  • I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.