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If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.
Donna Tartt
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Donna Tartt
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
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Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
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Beauty alters the grain of reality.
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I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?
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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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Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.
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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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And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.
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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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It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
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