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Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

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Betrayal, Fall, Empires

Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.74, Random House

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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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If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

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Cocktails, Few Words, Napkins

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To be next to her was to have everything.

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Next

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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

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America, People, House

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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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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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There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

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Mind, Bending, World

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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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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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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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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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Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

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Teenager, Vacuums, Foam

Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.130, Penguin

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…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

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People, Monstrous

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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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...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

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Humanity, Secret, Spares

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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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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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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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It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.

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Night, Forever, Changing Your Life

Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.149, Random House

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What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?

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Differences

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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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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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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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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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Born: October 26, 1977
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