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Author: Henning Mankell
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  1. Henning Mankell _ After the Fire

    call. I spent the next few hours playing poker with myself. It's the saddest expression of loneliness I know. I never feel more overwhelmed by weariness and unhappiness than when I'm trying to win money off myself. There is no deeper form of isolation.
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  2. Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman

    Wallander felt on the verge of misconduct.
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  3. Henning Mankell _ The Return of the Dancing

    I'm too old for talks. I gave that up when I turned sixty. I'd done enough talking in my life by then. Nowadays I neither speak nor listen to what anybody else has to say.
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  4. Henning Mankell _ After the Fire

    remembered him coming home after long shifts and immediately sitting down at the kitchen table, forcing my mother to listen to his complaints about all his difficult colleagues and the maître d's, not to mention the diners he had to put up with. I never heard him accept responsibility for any tricky situation that had arisen; it was always the other person who had been in the wrong. When I was a child, I thought my father was an amazing man who never made any mistakes, but as time went on I realised that of course he was simply blaming someone else. That was also why he burdened himself with what sometimes seemed like a bottomless sorrow over a life that had turned out to be a failure.
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  5. Henning Mankell _ Faceless Killers

    I can't have him at my place, that would never work. We'd murder each other.
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  6. Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman

    In life, people walked together part of the way. Then their paths diverged, so slowly and unnoticed that it wasn't clear what had happened until it was too late. And by that time they were already out of sight of each other."
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  7. Henning Mankell _ The Man Who Smiled

    Perhaps tranquility is what distinguishes the environment in which wealthy people live, he thought. - Kurt Wallander
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  8. Henning Mankell _ The Man Who Smiled

    You have to preserve your dignity. And your place in line . Otherwise they walk all over you. - Wallanders' father
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  9. Henning Mankell _ The Man Who Smiled

    Indirect questions can produce direct answers. - Anne-Brit Höglund
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  10. Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman

    Hate can blind people in the same way envy can. Or jealousy. - Kurt Wallander
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  11. Henning Mankell _ The Man Who Smiled

    Establishing the line between a lie and a fact, the real truth, is the basis of all police work. - Kurt Wallander
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  12. Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman

    A criminal investigation is like a construction site. Everything has to be done in the proper order or the building won't hold up.
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