"Most people ended up, after only a couple……" — Marisha Pessl
"Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, so far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean."
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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 Barbed Quotes
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The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating…
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
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When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire,…
— H. H. Asquith
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I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire…
— Foxy Brown
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula…
— David Berlinski
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Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm…
— William Kent Krueger
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I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a…
— Brendan Rodgers
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All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers,…
— Billy Connolly
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I read about a guy in Michigan this winter who was cruising along on his snow mobile. "Whoo hoo!" Didn't…
— David Crowe
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Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton…
— Karina Longworth
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The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into…
— Clement Freud
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Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.
— Edwina Currie
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