"We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality."

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Source : "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

Maj Sjowall

#Book Quotes #Views Quotes #People Quotes

“Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.”
“The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.”
“Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.”

Source : Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.”

Source : "Father of the Bush Doctrine". Interview with Daniel Henninger, www.wsj.com. April 29, 2006.
“The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.”
“The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.”
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
“From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.”

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