Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002). Levenskunstenaar en schrijver van o.a. Pippi Langkous.

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'A childhood without books -that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.'

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'Pipi: I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that. '

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'If you are very strong, you also have to be very kind.'

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'And do I wrtite the way I myself would like the book to be  -if I were a child. I write for the child within me.'

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'I do not have a message. However I'd very much like to spread a general tolerance for human insanity.'

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'Two things that we had that made our childhood to what it was, security and freedom.'

 

'Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. Be wild. And wonderful.'

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Olieverf, 30x35, 2026.