"Those around you can have their novellas, sweet,……" — Marisha Pessl
"Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last."
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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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Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem.…
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We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for…
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As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being…
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So this is why I can't agree with "don't feed the trolls." When millionaire celebrity broadcasters and entire publications start…
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Stop waiting. Feel everything. Love achingly. Give impeccably. Let go.
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Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful…
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