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...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
Writer
Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
Love
Organic
Rise
Privilege
Touch
Glory
Death
Doesn
Ignominiously
Back
Sink

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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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Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
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My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
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I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.
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