"Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars."

-- Camilla Lackberg

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“Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I be showing my films in theaters or just think about getting them out online? There were other issues, too.”
“A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.”
“There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it'll change.”
“The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.”

Source : Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.194, Transaction Publishers
“If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.”
“The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.”
“What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.”
“I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.”

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