"Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads……" — Marisha Pessl
"Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation."
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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 Dread Quotes
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and…
— Dirk Benedict
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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
— Georges Bernanos
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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with…
— John le Carre
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place…
— Frederick William Robertson
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment,…
— John Hospers
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I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
— Margrethe II of Denmark
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Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
— William Shakespeare
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When I hear bad news I look at it as another leadership test that will determine how successful Go Daddy…
— Bob Parsons
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and…
— Khalil Gibran
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Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.
— Shannon Miller
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