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Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
Writer
Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
Sometimes
Even
Going
Kill

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Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.
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For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.
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It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
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It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
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Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
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I really do work in solitude.
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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
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I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
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I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
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Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.
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The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.
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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction
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I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.
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Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.
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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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Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time
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Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.
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Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
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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.
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If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.
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