"Plague might be a social incompetent, but he……" — Steig Larsson
"Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius."
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113 Quotes by Steig Larsson
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I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one…
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I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article,…
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Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how…
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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That…
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try…
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Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical…
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I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea…
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To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
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Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.
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What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
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Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have…
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When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its…
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More Genius Quotes
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
— Pietro Aretino
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
— Antonin Artaud
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
— Charles Babbage
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
— Francis Bacon
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much…
— Francis Bacon
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
— George Matthew Adams
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