"Always live your life with your biography in mind."

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Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.58, Penguin

Marisha Pessl

#Book Quotes #Beer Quotes #Live Your Life Quotes

“The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access”
“Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.”
“Every failure is a step to success.”

Source : William Whewell (1852). “Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England”, p.101, London : J.W. Parker ; Cambridge : J. Deighton
“A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.”
“The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.”
“From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.”
“While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them.”
“I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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