"What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off."

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Marisha Pessl

#Men Quotes #Devastation Quotes #Nuclear Quotes

“The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.”
“Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident”
“The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.”
“It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It`s very distressing to me that that should be the case. The film industry is very old fashioned in California.”
“I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.”
“Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.”
“The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.”

Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.57, Duncan Baird Publishers
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