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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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  Hurt, Morning, Pain

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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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  Understanding, Defeated

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• You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

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  Ignorant, Mystery, Journalist

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.80, Random House

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• When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.

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  Song, Writing, Character

  "Random Rules: Marisha Pessl" by Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2006.

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• Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

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  Writing, Forever, Band

  "Random Rules: Marisha Pessl" by Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2006.

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• In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

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  Army, College, Political

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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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  Hate, Reading, Book

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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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  Believe, Character, Writing

  "Off the Page: Marisha Pessl". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2006.

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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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  Attitude, Book, People

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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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  Writing, Ideas, Havens

  "Off the Page: Marisha Pessl". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2006.

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• Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

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  Band, Kind, Realizing

  "Random Rules: Marisha Pessl" by Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2006.

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• Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.

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  Hate, Men, Show Me

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.201, Penguin

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• Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

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  Enlightenment, Sometimes

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.160, Penguin

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• Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

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  Fighting, Men, Justice

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.498, Penguin

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• Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

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  Talking, Enough, Length

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.200, Penguin

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• It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

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  People, Feelings, Common

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.229, Penguin

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• Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

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  Children, Father, School

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.94, Penguin

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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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  Eye, Cutting, Looks

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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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  Butterfly, Responsibility, People

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.201, Penguin

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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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  Believe, Simple, Evil

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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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  Men, Nuclear, Bombs

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• Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important questions. They all have fickle, highly whimsical minds of their own. Nevertheless. If you're patient, if you don't rush them, when they're ready, they'll smash into you. And don't be surprised if afterward you're speechless and there are cartoon Tweety Birds chirping around your head. (Gareth van Meer)

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  Men, Birds Chirping, People

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• But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

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  Stars, Matter, Persons

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• …deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

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  Order, Diving, Dies

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• When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.

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  Growing Up, Sorry, Looks

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.216, Penguin UK

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