Henning Mankell Quotes
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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.
Many years ago Wallander had learned that one of the manifold virtues a police officer must possess is the ability to be patient with himself.
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.
A close relationship, she thought. As far as they are concerned, all that means is a threat to which they don't want to expose themselves.
A journalist who doesn't know how to find a phone number no matter how secret it is should change his profession.
We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats ... nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats.
I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!
I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.
Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.
The great Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose once said, liberally translated, the only things worth writing about are love and murder.
When one historical period is replaced by another, there is
always a group of people left over from the old society
always a group of people left over from the old society
The game had started. Everybody was assuring everybody else how reliable they were. In fact, nobody trusted anybody but themselves
Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.
To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
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.
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.
Unlike Tania, who was so slim, Rykoff looked as if he'd been given an order to get fat
an order he had been delighted to obey.
an order he had been delighted to obey.
This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.
He stared down at the empty street and wondered why all city streets resembled each other at night. He
His definition of friendship had been grounded on the lowest common denominator, an absence of animosity. He
there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.
Letters ... People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.
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
What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible.
Big changes don't happen at the battlefield; they are made in closed rooms where very powerful people decide in which direction things should go.
Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet.
Sometimes parents don't know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and