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Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.
Donna Tartt
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Donna Tartt
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
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Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
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Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?
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It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.
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If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.
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Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you ought to add, or cut, before you've even finished telling your story. One loses heart one loses energy and interest. Or at least I do.
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I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view.
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I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
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Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
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It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
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I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?
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