"It’s what we chase but never find. It……" — Marisha Pessl
"It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It’s the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension."
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Marisha Pessl
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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 Chase Quotes
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
— Bono
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One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When…
— Nicolas Cage
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This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and…
— David Dellinger
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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
— Lyman Beecher
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I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never…
— Diana Nyad
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One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.
— Sun Tzu
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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is…
— Tim Ferriss
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Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a…
— Peter Bondra
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Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over…
— Jimmy Durante
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The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.
— E. W. Howe
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