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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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Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof;…
— Rajneesh
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No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves…
— George Soros
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Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated…
— Dick Morris
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There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with…
— Henrik Ibsen
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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
— James Joyce
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At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.
— Charles Rangel
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I don't do quagmires.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't…
— Daniel Handler
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American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.
— Sarah Vowell
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Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a…
— Vladimir Lenin
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