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To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.
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I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.
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It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.
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I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over
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But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.
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I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.
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Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity.
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Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?
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Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.
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She had been sharing a house with him for a week, and he had not once flirted with her. He had worked with her, asked her opinion, slapped her on the knuckles figuratively speaking when she was on the wrong track, and acknowledged that she was right when she corrected him. Dammit, he had treated her like a human being.
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Consider this a fair warning.
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Bullshit, Salander said again. Gottfried isn't the only kid who was ever mistreated. That doesn't give him the right to murder women. He made that choice himself. And the same is true of Martin.
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It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.
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The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.
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Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!
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Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
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There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.
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I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
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There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.
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When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. You're all members.
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