Author: Henning Mankell

Cites

• Plato (1)
  • IN: A Treacherous Paradise (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are three kinds of people: those who are dead, those who are alive, and those who sail the seas.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• NULL (5)
  • IN: The Troubled Man (2009) Fiction, Crime Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow. You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.
    FROM: Graffiti on buildings in New York City, (None), Inscription, US
  • IN: The Fifth Woman (1996) Fiction, Crime Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “With love and care the spiderweb weaves its spider.”
    FROM: African proverb, (None), Proverb, Africa
  • IN: After the Fire (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Much has he leanred who knows sorrow.
    FROM: The Song of Roland, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The White Lioness (1993) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Who dares to play while the lion roars?
    FROM: African Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1)
  • IN: The Man Who Smiled (1994) Fiction, Crime Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It is not so much the sight of immorality of the great that is to be feared as that of immorality leading to greatness.
    FROM: Democracy in America, (1835), Book, France
• Nawal El Saadawi (1)
  • IN: The Fifth Woman (1996) Fiction, Crime Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “I saw God in a dream and He had two faces. One was soft and kind like a mother’s face, and the other looked like the face of Satan.”
    FROM: The Fall of the Imam, (1987), Novel, Egypt
• Gustaf Froding (1)
  • IN: Sidetracked (1995) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Shall I bend, in vain, shall I shake the old, hard, immovable bars? — they will not stretch, they will not break for the bars are riveted and forged inside myself, and the bars will not shatter until I shatter too
    FROM: A Ghasel, (1891), Poem, Sweden
• Albert Einstein (1)
  • IN: One Step Behind (1997) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There are always many more disordered than ordered systems
    FROM: Second Law of Thermodynamics, (None), NULL, US
• Giuseppe Verdi (1)
  • IN: One Step Behind (1997) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The Overture to Rigoletto
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Firewall (1998) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A man who strays from the path of understanding comes to rest in the company of the dead.
    FROM: Proverbs 21:16, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Jan Hofmeyr (1)
  • IN: The White Lioness (1993) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: As long as we assign value to the people of our country on the basis of their skin colour, we will force them to endure what Socrates termed the lie at the depths of our souls.
    FROM: NULL, (1946), NULL, NULL
• Chou Chuang (1)
  • IN: Italian Shoes (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: When the shoe fits, you don't think about the foot.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Niels Bohr (1)
  • IN: Italian Shoes (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where the opposite is obviously impossible, and deep truths, which are characterised by their opposite also being a deep truth.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sigfrid Siwertz (1)
  • IN: Italian Shoes (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Love is a gentle hand which slowly pushes fate to one side.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL