Maj Sjowall Quotes

#1. I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

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#2. that you have three of the most important virtues a policeman can have," he thought. "You are stubborn and logical, and completely calm.

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#3. Of course I acted in school plays but mostly as angels or mushrooms.

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#4. The corpulent, impotent Petrus casts pubescent girls in skin flicks so low-budget sex, from film to film, takes place "on the same old couch, which occasionally changed covers.

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#5. January 7 arrived and looked like January 7. The streets were full of gray, frozen people without money.

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#6. Death is never very pretty.

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#7. We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

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#8. The highway authorities clearly did not think it worth their while wasting road salt on this useless bit of roadway.

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#9. Rather free than rich

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#10. Throughout the film the reporter kept up a ceaseless commentary in that eager, exalted tone that only American news reporters seem to achieve. It was as if he had - with enormous pleasure - just witnessed the end of the world.

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#11. People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

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#12. There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

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#13. There are lots of good cops around. Dumb guys who are good cops. Inflexible, limited, tough, self-satisfied types who are all good cops. It would be better if there were a few more good guys who were cops." His

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#14. No human being, particularly a young, attractive woman, is so alone that there is no one to miss her when she disappears.

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#15. Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

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#16. Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

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#17. following the man's uneventful and highly regimented

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#18. When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

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#19. After five years of marriage their idea of a really pleasant evening was to be at home, alone, help each other make a good dinner and then sit for a long time and eat and drink and talk.

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