"If I scribbled a few words on a……" — Marisha Pessl
"If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible."
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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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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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Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find…
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More Astonishing Quotes
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
— Charles Baudelaire
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
— Daniel Boone
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
— James Broughton
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It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes…
— Ernst Haeckel
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Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so…
— Carl Sagan
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
— William James
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Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and…
— Magdalena Abakanowicz
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell…
— Dannion Brinkley
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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