"Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them"

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Source : Henning Mankell (2013). “The Dogs of Riga: A Kurt Wallendar Mystery”, p.140, The New Press

Henning Mankell

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“The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.”

Source : "Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Looking down on creation". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.
“While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.”
“I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.”
“Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and yet are not democratic themselves.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: I cried when I saw Fela! On Broadway - Femi Kuti". Interview with Sam Umukoro, www.premiumtimesng.com. June 17, 2013.
“Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.”
“Matchy-matchy is not for me. I don't want things to be too perfect. It's like pairing a matte top with a shiny skirt, so they play off each other. I want there to be relationships with texture and color, and sometimes it's more about the contrast that chimes.”
“If the Britain and France had done what they were obliged to do under the treaty and sent troops to enforce the treaty when Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, the German general staff would have turned Hitler out. And one would not have had a cause for war, and you wouldn't have had World War II.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Narco fiction novels have a reputation, at least here in Mexico among some of the writers I know, of being somewhat rushed productions, usually written in one way or another like crime thrillers, with something cheesily exploitative about them. It feels exploitive - taking this horrible and ongoing tragedy and trying to turn it into something entertaining. Or trying to turn it into something that might earn the writer a reputation of the sort that many writers believe they aspire to. Or earn them money.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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