Quotes by Erlend Loe

About Erlend Loe:

Erlend Loe is a Norwegian novelist, screenwriter and film critic. He has gained popularity in Scandinavia with his humorous and sometimes naïve novels, although his stories have become darker in tone, moving towards a more satirical criticism of modern Norwegian society.
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I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something. I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. I also believe in love. And I have several good friends, an...

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It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.

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A human being weighing 70 kilograms contains among other things: -45 litres of water -Enough chalk to whiten a chicken pen -Enough phosphorus for 2,200 matches -Enough fat to make approximately 70 bars of soap -Enough iron to make a two inch nail -En...

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...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all s...

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Si el universo es pasajero, es fácil pensar que la vida humana carece de sentido. ¿Por qué tendría que hacer nada en absoluto?

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Spet to z vesoljem. Vse misli prejšne noči me nekako niso naredile manj umrljivega. Če je vesolje začasno si hitro misliš, da je človeško življenje nesmiselno. Zakaj bi se soloh česa lotil?

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Author Bio

  • NameErlend Loe
  • DescriptionNorwegian novelist
  • BornMay 24, 1969
  • CountryNorway
  • ProfessionWriter; Children's Writer
  • WorksNaïve. Super
  • AwardsAschehoug Prize; Norwegian Booksellers' Prize; Cappelen Prize; ;