Marisha Pessl Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!”
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“I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.”
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“Always live your life with your biography in mind.”
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“To be next to her was to have everything.”
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“It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would.”
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“I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.”
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“Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.”
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“We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop.”
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“His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.”
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“What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.”
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“As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.”
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“Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.”
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“Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can”
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“Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.”
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“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?”
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“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.”
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“Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.”
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“Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.”
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“You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.”
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“Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there's not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in the sky. With something like that right in front of you, you can't help but feel there's new possibilities out there.”
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“What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?”
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“It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.”
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“I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.”
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“Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.”
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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 so isolating.”
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“Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.”
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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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“I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?”
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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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“Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.”
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