"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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Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.197, Penguin

Marisha Pessl

#Dad Quotes #Character Quotes #Play Quotes

“Just a tip if you have a big event to go to or an important meeting, if you cry enough your face swells up giving you a temporary lift.”
“If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.”
“Backup singers just bring so much more life to the situation. When a voice opens up, there comes the life.That's when it's a person-to-person connection.”
“We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.”
“If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.”
“I was not in touch with reality. Growing up, I was being shielded without my knowing it, because even all the way up to the age of 15, I made these paper basketball men and played with them, like action figures.”
“When Viv Richards retired I thought it was end of entertainment. But then came Sehwag,the King of entertainment!”
“Lord, forgive the times I tried to read your mind.”

Source : Song: Trials Turned to Gold

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