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Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence." --
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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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People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.
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Henning Mankell |
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a428805
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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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Henning Mankell |
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You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.
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Henning Mankell |
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He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
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politeness
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You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.
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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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paradise
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We're always being made promises,' she said. 'You make them yourself and you listen to others giving theirs. Politicians are always going on about providing a better quality of life for people as they get older, and a health service in which nobody ever gets bedsores. Banks promise you high interest rates, some food promises to make you lose weight if you eat it, and body creams guarantee old age with fewer wrinkles. Life is quite simply a ..
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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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reality
value
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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
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It's only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we're of any real use.
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contribution
making-a-difference
self-fulfillment
teamwork
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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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Henning Mankell |
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The evil always comes from details.
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We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.
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Henning Mankell |
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Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them
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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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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." [As quoted in the
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writing
creative-process
writers
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What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.
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Henning Mankell |
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Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.
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Henning Mankell |
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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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Henning Mankell |
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Every time Wallander stepped into someone's home, he felt as though he were looking at the front cover of a book that he had just bought
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punks
punk-rock
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We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats...nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats.
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Henning Mankell |
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The truth changes all the time.
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Henning Mankell |
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I'm a religious man," he said. "I don't believe in a particular God, but even so one can have a faith, something beyond the limits of rationality. Marxism has a large element of built-in faith, although it claims to be a science and not merely an ideology. This is my first visit to the West: until now I have only been able to go to the Soviet Union or Poland or the Baltic states. In your country I see an abundance of material things. It see..
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poverty
religion
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Some people give theirselves a certain number of 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 or , when I am not interested in the world around. When I 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..
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Those who contemplate never escape the doubt.
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Henning Mankell |
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Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.
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Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.
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Your memories will be a flock of birds, silently flying in the sky. You will see them flying in and see them flying away. The memories will disappear and there will be nothing left.
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Henning Mankell |
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Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.
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Henning Mankell |
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The truth is never simple. It's only in the Western world that you think knowledge is something you can acquire quickly and easily. It takes time. The truth never hurries.
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Henning Mankell |
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God allowed no mistakes.
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We're living as if we were in mourning for a lost paradise, he thought. As if we longed for the car thieves and safecrackers of the old days, who doffed their caps and behaved like gentlemen when we came to take them in. But those days have irretrievably vanished, and it's questionable whether they were ever as idyllic as we remember them.
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Henning Mankell |
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There's no reality without battles and no future without fights.
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Henning Mankell |
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Not everything can go according to the plan.
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Henning Mankell |
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When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society
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Henning Mankell |
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A message was scribbled on the wall: .
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Henning Mankell |
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One can never wait too long.
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Henning Mankell |
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e129ada
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Memory is like glass. A person who has died is still visible, very close. But we can no longer contact each other. Death is mute; it excludes conversations, only allows silence.
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Henning Mankell |
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History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves for change is limited.
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Henning Mankell |
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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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Henning Mankell |
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What doesn't exist you have to create yourself. Even a dream can be plucked out of your head and shaped for a purpose.
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Henning Mankell |
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Wallander said. [Linda] Wallander said to Lindman.
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