Marisha Pessl Quotes

• 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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  Arte, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.432, Penguin UK

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• It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life - your success - depends on your family and how much money they have, where you go to college, what sort of job you can pin down, starting salary...But it doesn't, you know. You wouldn't believe this, but life hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming. And what you decide in those few seconds determines everything from then on... And you have no idea what you'll do until you're there.

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  Jobs, Growing Up, Couple

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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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  Hate, Long, People

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• May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.

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  Philosophy, Inspiration, Fighting

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.333, Penguin

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• Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider

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  Dog, Earth, Sun

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• Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

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  Dad, Live Your Life, Mind

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.58, Penguin

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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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  Past, Light, Color

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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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  Thinking, Rocks, Realizing

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• For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

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  Motivational, Men, Bait

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.463, Random House

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• But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.

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  Sweet, School, Narrative Structure

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.83, Penguin

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• He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

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  Things In Life, Trying, Scar

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.199, Penguin

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• Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.

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  Spring, Sadness, Swimming

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.203, Penguin

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• Always live your life with your biography in mind.

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  Book, Beer, Live Your Life

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.58, Penguin

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• People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

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  People, Realizing, Life Is

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• Los que te rodean pueden tener sus novelas, dulces, sus historias cortas de clichés y coincidencias, ocasionalmente aderezadas con trucos de lo estrafalario, lo dolorosamente mundano, lo grotesco. Algunos incluso cocinan tragedias griegas, nacidos en la miseria y destinados a morir en ella. Pero tú, mi novia de la tranquilidad, crearás nada menos que épica con tu vida. De todas ellas, tu historia será la que perdure.

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  Sweet, Epic, Greek

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.84, Penguin

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• Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

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  Making Love, Library, Littles

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• I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.

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  People, Lasts, Firsts

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.197, Penguin

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• Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

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  Dad, Character, Play

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.197, Penguin

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• It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

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  America, Hard

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.112, Penguin

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• Freak the ferocious out.

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  Freak

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• Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

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  Lying, Kernel

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• 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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  Life, Giving, Understanding

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• Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

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  Perfect, Sovereign

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.73, Random House

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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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  Worried, Ends, Worms

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• El gran Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), ensayista, conferenciante, escritor satírico y observador social británico, escribió en su autobiografía Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902): "Cuando uno viaja al extranjero, no descubre las maravillas ocultas del mundo, sino las maravillas ocultas de las personas con las que viaja. Pueden resultar ser una vista conmovedora, un paisaje más bien aburrido o un terreno tan traicionero que es mejor olvidarse de todo el asunto y volver a casa.

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  Home, Views, World

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.280, Penguin

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