"What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?"

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Marisha Pessl

#Differences Quotes

“Show love! Love feels good!”
“Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.”
“By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.”
“Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.”
“At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice doesn't garner much attention in the frenetic world of mass culture.”

Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.15, Ballantine Books
“A thought is harmless unless we believe it.”
“Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.”
“So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.”

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