Henning Mankell Quotes

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• Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.
• When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and…
• We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.
• The evil always comes from details.
• Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.
• Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It…
• Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.
• Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.
• I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.
• Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.
• Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships…
• Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on…
• It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans,…
• Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.
• We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.
• They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.
• I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page…
• We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.
• For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to…
• An oppressed people will always rise.

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