Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pesslis an American writer best known for her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
book beer live-your-life
Always live your life with your biography in mind.
phones world phone-calls
Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.
perfect sovereign
Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.
hate people long
I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.
art men thinking
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?!
jobs growing-up couple
It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how much money they have, where you go to college, what sort of job you can pin down, starting salary...But it doesn't, you know. You wouldn't believe this, but life hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming. And what you decide in those few seconds determines everything from then on... And you have no idea what you'll do until you're there...
thinking rocks realizing
Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.
sweet school narrative-structure
But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.
believe simple evil
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.
lying kernel
Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
people lasts firsts
I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.
people feelings common
It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.
home views world
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.