"To be next to her was to have everything."

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Marisha Pessl

“You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well”
“My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.”
“Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.”
“I dream in fire but work in clay.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2018). “The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories”, p.369, Oxford University Press
“In the 1970s, I bought some cheap horses, then decided that if I was going to be in it, I was going to go big time. So in 2001, Bill Casner, a partner with me in Excel, and I bought a breeding farm, WinStar Farm, together.”
“It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain.”
“Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.”
“The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “Vertigo”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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