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Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.
Marisha Pessl
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Marisha Pessl
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: October 26
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Clarkston
Michigan
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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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Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -
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...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.
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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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What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?
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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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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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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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It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.
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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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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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Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.
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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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God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.
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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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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 was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
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…how monstrous the people you loved could be.
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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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His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.
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