Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Carsten Jensen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Danish author Carsten Jensen.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Carsten Jensen

Carsten Jensen is a Danish author and political columnist. He first earned recognition as a literary critic for the Copenhagen daily, Politiken. His novels, including I Have Seen the World Begin (1996), deal with knowledge of the world. For this novel he won the Danish booksellers award De Gyldne Laurbær in 1996. The year 2006 saw the publication of his novel Vi, de druknede, a chronicle about the birth of modern Denmark, seen through the history of his hometown Marstal.

Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down. — © Carsten Jensen
Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.
That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.
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