Henning Mankell Quotes

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• I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.
• Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one…
• Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.
• Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
• Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.
• Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as…
• To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
• It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music
• I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that…
• Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.
• What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.
• He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
• ‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful…
• People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.
• The stories I create are never as awful as reality.
• You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.
• It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.
• Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.
• My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not…
• I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being…

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