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Marisha Pessl has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
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There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.
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I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
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It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
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Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.
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I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
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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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I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should…
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I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that…
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If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more…
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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely…
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In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the…
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Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
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The gay movement doesn't care about what you think...they're focused on the young ones because if you can put the ideas into…
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Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can…
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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
— Steve Earle
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. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere…
— Geneen Roth
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What you think now about the cross of Christ, I cannot tell; but I can wish you nothing better than this -…
— J C Ryle
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
— Seneca the Younger
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Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.
— Jimmy Carr
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You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans...
— Dr. John
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