Henning Mankell Quotes

I realize that Facebook today is a global success with more than 600 million users worldwide. But I also understand, maybe a bit sadly, that it is not for me. Perhaps it is because I am a bit too old? Or perhaps it is because I am more interested in exploring the epic text, which I have lived with for all my life.

Henning Mankell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: February 3, 1948 - October 5, 2015

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If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.

John C. Calhoun

PoliticalDownWillBecomeTwoLeft

You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop.

John Knoll

YouDoneSeeTurnSomethingAround

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

John Hurt

TimeWishProblemMoreAlwaysOut

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

Stephen Vincent Benet

LoveAmericanFatNeverNamesSharp

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

Tom Wolfe

BelieveLiteratureImportantOut

There is a tendency to presume autobiography in fiction by women or minorities. Guys named Jonathan write universal stories, while there's this sense that everyone else is just fictionalizing their own small experiences.

Rumaan Alam

WomenSmallWriteEveryoneOwnJust

My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.

Michiko Kakutani

FamilyMotherWarPeopleWorldWest

Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.

Michelle Grabner

ProfessionalHurdlesLimitationsTake

I'm going to be an actor.

Mitch Gaylord

ActorGoing

My parents were truly severe.

Miuccia Prada

ParentsSevereWereTruly

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

Josh Hartnett

HandsFameYoungKindToolBlunt

When we first began, we didn't have any hits.

Diana Ross

FirstBeganHitsAny

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