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It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

Jostein Gaarder

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Jostein Gaarder
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 8
Author
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Oslo
Norway
Water
Dainty
Easy
Crust
Make
Fathom
Things
Skating
Like
Thin
Ice
Pirouettes
Thousands
Fathoms
Deep
Brittle

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