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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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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that…
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Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human…
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I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.
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One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds…
— Alveda King
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For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than…
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Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes…
— Marisha Pessl
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If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not…
— John Berger
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Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.
— Andy Serkis
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