Henning Mankell Quotes

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• I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

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  Learning, Doe, Paradise

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Sep 12, 2012

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Information Knowledge, People

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 03, 2012

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• People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

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  People, Shadow, People Leaving

  Henning Mankell (2011). “The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Mystery”, p.4, Random House

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• 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.

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  Giving Up, Mean, People

  Henning Mankell (2010). “Faceless Killers: Kurt Wallander”, p.290, Random House

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• We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

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  Arguing

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• You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

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  Home, Roots, Grows

  "All along the watchtower" by Nick Hasted, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.

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• Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

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  Dream, Opportunity, Reality

  Henning Mankell (2011). “The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Mystery”, p.257, Random House

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• Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

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  Branches, Life Is, Abyss

  Henning Mankell (2013). “Italian Shoes: A Novel”, p.11, The New Press

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• Every secret we confide in another
  person can be a burden to them

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  Secret, Burden, Persons

  Henning Mankell (2013). “The Dogs of Riga: A Kurt Wallendar Mystery”, p.140, The New Press

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• To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

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  Children, Growing Up, Childhood

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Sep 18, 2012

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• ‎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 about them.

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  Silence, Together, Able

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 16, 2012

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• 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 meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.

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  Country, Violent Acts, People

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jul 29, 2011

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• An oppressed people will always rise.

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  People, Oppressed

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• I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

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  Book, Understanding, World

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• Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

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  Wise, People, Form

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• Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army.

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  Art, Believe, Army

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• It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

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  Writing, Night, Sky

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 23, 2016

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• The evil always comes from details.

  Henning Mankell

  Evil, Details

  "The Man from Beijing". Book by Henning Mankell, 2008.

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• The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

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  Reality, Stories, Awful

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• We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

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  Past, Deeds

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• 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 is really wise. I myself have a few weeks per year, let us call them white or black, when I am not interested in the world around. When I come back from this isolation of the news, I realize that I have missed nothing significant. We live in the rain of disinformation and rumors, where the truth is a very small number. In those weeks of dissociation I seek for knowledge that lies within me.

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  Wise, Lying, Rain

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Mar 09, 2012

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• 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 pinched your feet were a fact of life.

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  Shoes, Feet, Facts

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Nov 28, 2012

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• Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.

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  Country, Long, People

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

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  People, Sweden, I Smile

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• 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 often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.

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  Children, Believe, Enemy

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 22, 2012

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