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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1952 AD · modern
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- Jostein Gaarder
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- Approximate author period: c. 1952 AD · modern
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