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I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. Theres Europ

I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. Theres European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European. – Henning Mankell

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I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see whats happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society. – Henning Mankell

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Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. – Henning Mankell

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Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives – which is true – but theres also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival. – Henning Mankell

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Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. – Michael Eisner

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The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why hes being bullied. I couldnt go home and open up to my parents. – Dan Savage

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When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive. – Jasper Johns

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Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. – Josh Billings

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