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Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.

~ Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell Truth

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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Henning Mankell Becoming A Writer Creative Process Writers Writing

I am constantly reminded that we human beings are basically storytellers. More homo narrans than Homo sapiens. We see ourselves in others' stories. Every genuine work of art contains a small fragment of glass from a mirror.

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Henning Mankell Art

You can't live with literary characters no matter how much you might like to. You can have them as imaginary friends that you can call up when you need to. One of the tasks of art is to provide people with companions.

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Henning Mankell Art Kurtwallander Swedishnoir Ystad

There is no such thing as a world without combat, no civilization which doesn't start off by laying down the rules for relations between people. But the rules are there for the weak. The strong man experiments to find out how far they can be stretched, he creates his own rules. You would like everything to be based on the goodwill and charity of one's fellow men. But if there is no private profit to be made, there will be no progress.

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Henning Mankell Power

I ask myself everyday what my life is doing to me and I realize I don't have anybody I can talk to.You should have said the Doctor everybody should.

~ Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell Directionless Loneliness

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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Henning Mankell Poverty

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

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Henning Mankell Dreams Reality Value

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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Henning Mankell Childhood

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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Henning Mankell Hell Paradise

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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Henning Mankell Achievement Contribution Making A Difference Self Fulfillment Teamwork

He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god.

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Henning Mankell Religious Religious Faith Religious Ideals

An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.

~ Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell Africa African Death Death And Dying Dying The Shadow Girls

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

~ Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell Goodbye I Am World

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.

~ Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell Time Leaving Run

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.

~ Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell Listening Mistake People

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

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Henning Mankell Life Best Mother

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.

~ Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell I Am Information Newspaper

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

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Henning Mankell People Africa People Say

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

~ Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell Roots Grow You
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