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The Jealousy Man and Other Stories QUOTES

The Jealousy Man and Other Stories QUOTES

1 " I am a man of limited intellect but limitless curiosity. It is, unfortunately, a frustrating combination. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

2 " Girard’s theory is that beyond satisfying our basic needs we don’t know what it is we want. So we mimic our surroundings, we value what other people value. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

3 " writers are terrified of offending other writers because better than anyone else they know that a sensitive mind armed with a pen is like a child equipped with an Uzi.) "

― Jo Nesbø , The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

4 " From childhood onwards I have had a striking ability to become deeply engaged in stories. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

5 " Elizabeth Arden’s Eight Hour Cream into my fingers – that’s a ladies’ cosmetic first produced in the 1930s, but as I and hundreds of other climbers had discovered, it was much better for rebuilding new skin than any patented climbers’ cream. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

6 " (Odd Rimmen’s theory was that writers are terrified of offending other writers because better than anyone else they know that a sensitive mind armed with a pen is like a child equipped with an Uzi.) "

― Jo Nesbø , The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

7 " I don’t think it’s fear we become addicted to but control. The feeling of mastering danger, mastering our own fate. Of exerting a control we don’t have over the rest of our lives. We are slightly heroic because we don’t make mistakes in critical situations. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

8 " The murder rate in Greece is low. So low that a lot of people wonder how it’s possible in a crisis-ridden country with high unemployment, corruption and social unrest. The smart answer is that rather than kill someone they hate, Greeks allow the victim to go on living in Greece. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Jealousy Man and Other Stories