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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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But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing,…
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When I murdered my wife I removed the one obstacle which for ten years had apparently held me in check. After she…
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I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.
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How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult.…
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I could feel the warmth of his presence as if a soft blanket had been wrapped around my soul, around my heart.…
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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.
— Ronnie O'Sullivan
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I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity.
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