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Donna Tartt
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
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Donna Louise Tartt
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Beauty alters the grain of reality.
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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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I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.
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Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.
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Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.
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The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.
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In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.
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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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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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Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.
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Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
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A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.
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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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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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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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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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You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
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