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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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Marisha Pessl
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 26
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Clarkston
Michigan
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Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times.
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It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.
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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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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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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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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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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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Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.
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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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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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His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.
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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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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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…how monstrous the people you loved could be.
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Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -
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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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It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
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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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Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.
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