Stieg Larsson (Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson) Quotes
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.
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Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
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Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.
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Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.
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A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan.
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Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
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Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers.
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Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.
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Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.
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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
