Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.
Henning MankellTag: diaspora
But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He wondered how long he could keep this up.
Henning MankellTag: gloomy
I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.
Henning MankellThings are as they are.
Henning MankellTag: ebba kurt-wallander
Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.
Henning MankellTag: truth
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
Henning MankellTag: politeness humiliation
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."
[As quoted in the author biography on Mankell's official website.]
Tag: writing writers creative-process becoming-a-writer
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 MankellTag: 12-11-11 the-art-of-listening-ny-times
in a rash moment he decided to lie his way to the truth. If he wasn't mistaken, Ellen Magnusson had had very little experience with the police. She would assume that they searched for the truth by being honest themselves. She was the one who would lie, not the police.
Henning MankellJustice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.
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