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Henning Mankell
"I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways."
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Henning Mankell
#Different Quotes
#Awful Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“There's so much more you can do with the dynamics of songs when they're simple... I think it was what I needed in my life - there was a lot going on, a lot of layers.”
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“A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of feline digital extremities is 4, or 5, or 6," he simply looks at a cat and counts. A social scientist prefers the more long-winded expression every time, because it gives an entirely spurious impression of scientificness to what he is doing.”
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“Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.”
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“Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.”
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“Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.”
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“Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.”
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“Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them.”
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“Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.”
