Karen Blixen - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am not a novelist, really not even a writer; I am a storyteller. One of my friends said about me that I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them, and perhaps this is not entirely untrue. To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy

My Interests

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Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest

My Blog

Quotations from "Out of Africa" (1937)

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-tim...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:12:00 GMT

Quotations from "Seven Gothic Tales" (1934)

During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the ...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:09:00 GMT