The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies in his simplicity and imagines he is telling the truth.


Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)

Halldór Laxness Quotes

The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies in ...

The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies in ...

The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies in ...

The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies in ...