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

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Arguing

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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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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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‎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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.

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Technology, Important, Cyberspace

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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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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 summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.

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Sorry, Writing, Feelings

FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Mar 03, 2012

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You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

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Thinking, Surprise, You Think You Know

Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg (2013). “Before The Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery”, p.274, The New Press

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Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.

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Coffee, Police Work, Police

Henning Mankell (2013). “One Step Behind: A Kurt Wallander Mystery”, p.245, The New Press

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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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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, the storytelling person. What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people’s dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats–and they in turn can listen to ours.

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Dream, Animal, Men

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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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Born: February 3, 1948
Died: October 5, 2015
Occupation: Crime writer
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