Quotes about Hans Christian Andersen

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I'm not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?

As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!

There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.

One of the books I read was an old copy of Hans Christian Andersen with strange, very nineteenth-century engravings. [..] There was some kind of awful fascination about those stories; they're not cheerful, they're a glimpse into the adult world, and I think I was entranced by them for that reason.

Telling about her childhood