"It was never the act itself but our……" — Marisha Pessl

"It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again."

— Marisha Pessl

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77 Quotes by Marisha Pessl

Marisha Pessl has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.
I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so…
Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's…
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to…
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good…
I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply…
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing…
In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were…
In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black…
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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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