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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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Marisha Pessl
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: October 26
Writer
Clarkston
Michigan
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Next
Three
Romeo
Persons
Juliet
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Damned
Love
Teeth
Hundred
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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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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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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'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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To be next to her was to have everything.
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Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.
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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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God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.
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It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.
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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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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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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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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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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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Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.
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It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.
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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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