Truth Quotes by Marisha Pessl

8 Truth quotes by Marisha Pessl

Pessl’s eight lines feel like a brief, literary coffee break, each one probing the thin line between perception and fact. Perfect for a quick, thought‑provoking pause.

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“My mind was spinning from the symmetry of this equation I suddenly faced: magical on one side, scientific on the other, a…

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Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as…

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“It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on…

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As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this…

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May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand,…

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“The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing … it never stops.”

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“Smoke was a person with a sense of history. Do you know what I mean?" ...in truth, I DID know what she…

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Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

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“The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it.”

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“Today dies a crooked and gluttonus man' - it was true, at least literally; McCullough allegedly weighed three hundred pounds and suffered from scoliosis.”

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