"May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known."

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Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.333, Penguin

Marisha Pessl

#Philosophy Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“I guess you could say that Iâ€™m the luckiest girl because I got to meet my true hero. She was a precious person. She made me a better singer, a better person. She was the consummate artist and human being.”
“With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.”
“I like to take CEOs into consumers' homes to see the "real world." CEOs have privileged lives with big incomes, lots of help, access to just about anything they wish. The average consumer lives on $53,000 a year and has daily tradeoffs and compromises that must be made. I took a CEO into a trailer park so he could observe first-hand - and understand - how consumers use his product.”
“The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.”
“When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.”
“I'm not in the gossips that much, but something I read recently was that me and Emma Watson are having a feud. And I've never even met her.”
“I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.”
“When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.”

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