"...I couldn't let go of the thought that……" — Marisha Pessl
"...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles."
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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 Aisles Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
— Elayne Boosler
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And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths…
— Clinton Scollard
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There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the…
— David Foster Wallace
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Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church,…
— Harry Crews
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There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad…
— Walt Whitman
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By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV…
— Adora Svitak
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall…
— Jerome Richardson
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The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes…
— Unknown Author
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and…
— Al Jarreau
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I absolutely fell in love with David Cristofanos writing. THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is that rare novel--its the…
— Unknown Author
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