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

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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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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.

~ Henning Mankell

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