Jostein Gaarder Quotes

But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.

Jostein Gaarder

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• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

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• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

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• As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

  

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• But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • True
  • Need
  • Fairytales