Landlocked Switzerland: They're Nice and Neutral Only Because They're Tiny
Marisha Pessl
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theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.
THEODOR ADORNO Always live your life with your biography in mind.
MARISHA PESSL Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON Most everybody needs clothes. Theyre going to need clothing--jeans, T-shirts, socks, the whole thing...
CAROL JONES Everyone who could have got away did. Its really upsetting to see. The only people left are the ones...
IAN WILLIAMSON Splits generally are positive for stocks if theyre done at the right time. The timing on this one lo...
IAN WITTERS The thing i hate most about rock and roll is the tie dyed tshirts, unless theyre died with blood and...
KURT COBAIN The consequences that cause people to do their best every day occur every day. Delayed rewards are f...
AUBREY DANIELS Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very e...
LILY COLLINS In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house...
MARISHA PESSL Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying.
"Naturally, it won'...
MARISHA PESSL Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.
MARISHA PESSL No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure!...
MARISHA PESSL I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a react...
MARISHA PESSL Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occ...
MARISHA PESSL It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.
MARISHA PESSL A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.
MARISHA PESSL If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the cou...
MARISHA PESSL It was true. After our divorce, I'd ended up in a slight relationship with my last research assistan...
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MARISHA PESSL Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.
MARISHA PESSL I couldn't help but suspect something he'd seen or encountered had changed his view of what had happ...
MARISHA PESSL Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
MARISHA PESSL ...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Da...
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MARISHA PESSL It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar ...
MARISHA PESSL Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows u...
MARISHA PESSL No, sir, th dimmycratic party aint on speakin terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neck...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE Hopefully this is the payoff of all the work everybodys been doing for where were taking the DC Univ...
GEOFF JOHNS I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.
JAMES BALOG I loved my mission in Switzerland and Germany. As I left on the train from Basel, Switzerland, tears...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating aro...
MOBY When you're genuinely nice to someone and he assumes you have a motive, that's because he knows he o...
ASSYA MOUSSAID I took a lot of risks and made a few mistakes today but I'm really pleased with the result. I'm goin...
ALLISON FORSYTH Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nati...
THOR HEYERDAHL I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venere...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER Intentions are nice, but ultimately intentions don't really matter because they only exist inside yo...
KELLY WILLIAMS BROWN The althorn is played in Switzerland and southern Germany.
KARL THEOBALD Everybody is happy in Switzerland.
JAKOB KOLLIKER My daughter, people are only used to seeing the glorified in a story, because a story is only a tiny...
DARRYL STEVEN MARKOWITZ To serve the human race
is to serve a neutral and peaceful leadership,
Petra Hermans
PETRA HERMANS The only thing I could see in here that would stimulate sexual functioning is caffeine because it im...
JUDITH SILVERSTEIN We're getting album orders from Australia, Turkey, Switzerland, the UK, Germany, and of course the U...
LOUIS RODRIGUE Great Britain, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Italy are being considered.
JOACHIM HUNOLD It's nice and quiet. That's the way I like it. I don't like a lot of noise.
RAFAEL BETANCOURT We're getting album orders from Australia, Turkey, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany, and of ...
LOUIS RODRIGUE We're getting album orders from Australia, Turkey, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany, and of ...
LOUIS RODRIGUE I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.
BRIGITTE NIELSEN New measures, similar to a previous outdoor ban for poultry, are being considered because Switzerlan...
CATHY MARET We had nice strength early, and then bonds reversed and stocks followed. It's certainly a bit more c...
GREG NIE The shirt hung to my knees.
He smirked. “You are tiny.”
I stuck out my tongue at him...
CAMBRIA HEBERT She did some nice things for us. She really only came out because she loved being around the team.
JACE HYMAS I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
OSCAR WILDE Only a handful, a tiny handful, of retirees have objected to this settlement.
EUGENE DRIKER I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.
YVES BEHAR But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in...
ADAM SCHIFF The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral gro...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a ...
MALIK BENDJELLOUL Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism ...
ROBERT ZOELLICK I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It...
SARAH MCLACHLAN Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA But Austria, Switzerland and parts of Belgium speak a different sort of German.
COLUM JOYCE In the current situation Switzerland will not vaccinate poultry.
MARCEL FALK I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in...
ADAM DEREK SCOTT In December, when we were just getting pounded by every other candidate, I asked Terry to step in be...
HOWARD DEAN People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only a...
VINCENT CASSEL The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre
performers is not a great, mas...
BRIAN TRACY Nature is neutral.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is ...
KERRY GREENWOOD We are already prepared in case bird flu does reach Switzerland. Coordination with the European Unio...
MARCEL FALK Love has no gear box. People must not shift it to reverse and People must not shift it to forward. B...
LEBOGANG MARUMO I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
URSULA ANDRESS I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
PARMINDER NAGRA I bought him an attractive bird cage made in Switzerland,
CHARLES F. KETTERING I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
SYDNEY SMITH Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, German...
FATOS NANO Lazy people aren’t nice because they don’t want to exert any effort to be nice and lovable.
JOHN B. BEJO Today's children are very opinionated. You have kids that only want to wear pink, or only want to we...
MIRIAM AROND I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.
NICK HORNBY it's neutral in people's mind. Every person I've ever met from Iowa had this neutral attitude toward...
DALE MAHARIDGE Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I've sold to Japan, China, England, Italy, I think, Switzerland, Scotland.
JUDY WILLIAMS It's only when life is broken and shattered into tiny pieces when you understand that love prevented...
P.J. BAYLISS That's an exciting bird to find because they're so tiny and out on the sand where they're hard to fi...
PAT GALLAGHER It's regrettable that we have different treatment for athletes based in Switzerland and athletes bas...
MATTHIEU REEB When I'd originally loaded the car and held the door open for him, I'd had a passing impulse to pick...
J.D. SALINGER Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK We are taking this very seriously. But this affects only a very tiny percentage of our members.
GAYLE TUTTLE It's nice to get awards but the only awards I want are titles. They probably voted for me because I ...
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN Being only 17, they were almost mentoring and nice (to me),
BRENT BROWN Typically the council is neutral.
BRIAN MICHAELS It's not a neutral court.
JUNE DAUGHERTY I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
JERRY ONLY We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
JERRY ONLY The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch ...
JERRY ONLY My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.
JERRY ONLY Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you pro...
JERRY ONLY
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