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Marisha Pessl

"Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important questions. They all have fickle, highly whimsical minds of their own. Nevertheless. If you're patient, if you don't rush them, when they're ready, they'll smash into you. And don't be surprised if afterward you're speechless and there are cartoon Tweety Birds chirping around your head. (Gareth van Meer)"

-- Marisha Pessl

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Bird Quotes

“If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.”

Source : Song: If There's Hell Below
“My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.”
“The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetic I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature.”
“Tom Stafford was an odd character, you know - a brilliant guy. He looked weird and I think he took a really defensive attitude about being a hunchback. You know how people can be, giving him a hard time. So he turned that into a defensive mechanism. He would strike first, a lot of times. But he was a great guy, and really those talks we had when I was about 15, out of all of that came the studio over the drugstore and everything else. I'm not saying - I'm no big deal, but I was a part of the birth of the music there.”
“Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the bodyâ€™s circadian rhythm, its inner clock. In normal people, ambient conditions, especially the sun, dictate their humors and determine when they are tuckered out for the day. Theyâ€™re on a twenty-four-hour cycle. Bipolar people run on cycles independent of the sun. And run and run.”

Source : Sam Kean (2011). “The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table”, p.252, Random House
“We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.”
“Is the future of humanity really about clouds you can't see and chips you can't eat?”
“It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.”

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