“When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Headhunters
“An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I’m afraid to say, has been understood.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Headhunters
“They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian taxpayers finance years at university just so that they could end up as overqualified, stay-at-home playthings and sit here exchanging confidences about how to keep their sugar daddies suitably happy, suitably jealous and suitably on their toes.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Headhunters
“most likely because the majority of the receptionists have gone home, to a sick partner according to statistics, in the country with the shortest working hours in the world, the biggest health budget and the highest proportion of sick leave.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Headhunters
“that it was impossible to get rid of it without”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Headhunters
“We all drink according to how thirsty we are’.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Headhunters
Jo Nesbø
Born place: in Oslo, Norway
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“He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia Rising
“A dream caused by too much reading and not enough sleeping.”
― Gwen Hayes, quote from Falling Under
“This is a free country...you can do almost anything you want.”
― John Grisham, quote from Skipping Christmas
“Un estómago cargado, (...) avaricioso, engendra malos pensamientos, avinagra el carácter, fomenta complejos y apetitos sexuales chuecos y crea vocación de delito, una necesidad de castigar en los otros el tormento excrementicio”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, quote from Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
“is more unfair,” as an English historian has well said, “than to judge men of the past by the ideas of the present. Whatever may be said of morality, political wisdom is certainly ambulatory.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, quote from The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
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