17th April: Isak Dinesen

The author of Out of Africa, Karen Blixen, also known as Isak Dinesen, was born this date in 1885. 10 quotes:

1. The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
2. God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
3. All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
4. Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
5. You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
6. When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
7. Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.
8. We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.
9. I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.
10. Perhaps to them the first condition for anything having real charm was this: that it must not really exist.