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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?

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
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Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
Life
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