Steig Larsson Quotes - Page 4

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• Blomkvist had indeed had many brief relationships. He knew he was reasonably good-looking, but he had never considered himself exceptionally attractive. But he had often been told that he had something that made women interested in him . . .that he radiated self-confidence and security at the same time, that he had the ability to make women feel at ease. Going to bed with him was not threatening or complicated, but it might be erotically enjoyable. And that, according to Blomkvist, was as it should be.

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  Self Confidence, Bed, Ease

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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, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

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  Writing, Crime Novels, Easy

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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 highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.

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  Jobs, Matter, Talent

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• I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

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  Fun, Book, Writing

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• Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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• History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.

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  War, Men, Soldier

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• I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.

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  Writing, Police, Too Much

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• Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.

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  Years, Way, Twenties

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• Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

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  Rights, Years, Police

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• The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every movement, every decision that was made and implemented, only led them one step closer to the abyss.

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  Fall, Organization, Decision

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• I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

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  Couple, Book, Writing

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• I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.

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  Editing, Editors, Matter

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• I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

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  Character, Two, People

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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 literature.

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  Writing, Light, Stories

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• Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

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  Trying, Stories, Entertainment

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• In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

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  Book, Ordinary, Stories

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• Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.

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  Attitude, Fighting, Gun

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• He felt that he had to find Salander and hold her close. She would probably bite him if he tried.

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  Ifs, Bites, Felt

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• Oppurtunity Makes the Thief

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  Thieves, Catchy, Oppurtunity

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• Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.

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  Forgiving, Never Forget, Injustice

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• Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.

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  Punishment, Feelings, Firsts

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• A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

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  Asking Questions, People, Journalist

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• Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

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  Genius, Might, Social

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• His attitude had always been that if a woman clearly indicated that she did not want anything more to do with him, he would go on his way. Not respecting such a message would in his eyes, show a lack of respect for her.

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  Attitude, Eye, Goes On

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• The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.

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  Reality, People, Different

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