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

Henning Mankell

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Henning Mankell
Age: 67 †
Born: 1948
Born: February 3
Died: 2015
Died: October 5
Crime Writer
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Human Rights Activist
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Henning Georg Mankell
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When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.
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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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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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When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.
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Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.
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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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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!
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The stories I create are never as awful as reality.
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Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.
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Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.
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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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Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.
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You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.
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