"Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth." — Marisha Pessl
"Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth."
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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 Elaborate Quotes
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In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated…
— Vinoba Bhave
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My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style.…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
— Orson Scott Card
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
— Raymond Chandler
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I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some…
— John Cena
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Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out…
— Leonard Cohen
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Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one…
— Nicholas A. Christakis
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Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always…
— Cyril Connolly
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The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the…
— Denise Richards
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The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour…
— David McCullough
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We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of…
— Bruce Alberts
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