"Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself."

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Source : Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.114, Random House

Jo Nesbo

#Opposites Quotes #Evil Quotes #Void Quotes

“Our bodies don't know how to digest these 'food like' products resulting in stress and weight gain! Nourish your body with real foods and it will shine for you.”
“You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.”

Source : Lady Sings the Blues ch. 11 (1956).
“With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week, a month, maybe, to find your mood again - that mood in which things drop from heaven. There's no forcing it; you can't set your notions in front of you, and stare at them till they take shape; they have to come to you whether you ask them or not. ... And you have to be in the habit of that mood! Of inspiration!”
“Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.”
“To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.”
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.”
“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.”
“I want to make something, and I want people to know I made it.”

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