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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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A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.
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I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.
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The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.
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Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being…
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Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls.…
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I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If…
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher…
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Its nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it…
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If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave…
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A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of…
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When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.
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