Best quotes by Henning Mankell on World

Checkout quotes by Henning Mankell on World

• ‟ I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

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• ‟ I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

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• ‟ When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.

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• ‟ Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.

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• ‟ The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.

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• ‟ In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else.

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• ‟ I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!

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• ‟ I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

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