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

  Henning Mankell

  Arguing

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

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  Reality, Stories, Awful

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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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• 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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• 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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• At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

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  Running, Country, Leaving

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

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