"But when you flee someone, no matter how……" — Marisha Pessl
"But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars."
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77 Quotes by Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pessl has 77 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to…
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I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good…
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I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply…
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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…
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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were…
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In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black…
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More Doggedly Quotes
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one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
— Thomas Aquinas
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and…
— H. L. Mencken
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The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World…
— Len Morgan
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Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke…
— Charles Dickens
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The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and…
— Roger von Oech
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Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution,…
— Bill Bryson
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Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of…
— Virginia Woolf
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I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a…
— Loretta Chase
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At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure,…
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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