My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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"My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity." — Halldor Laxness
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity. — Halldor Laxness
About Halldor Laxness
Halldor Laxness was a Writer from Iceland (1902–1998).
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This quote is attributed to Halldor Laxness, a Writer from Iceland.
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Halldor Laxness lived from 1902 – 1998.