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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
Writer
Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
Expect
Longer
Takes
Truth
Everything
Life

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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
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Beauty alters the grain of reality.
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I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.
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I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
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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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I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
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When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a flickering sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature - fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.
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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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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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All those layers of silence upon silence.
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But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.
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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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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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When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.
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