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Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: December 23
Novelist
Writer
Greenwood
Mississippi
Donna Louise Tartt
Conquer
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Fool
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Doe
Everything
Love
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Whoever

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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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In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.
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I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.
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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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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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Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.
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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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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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...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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And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.
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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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There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction
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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
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Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
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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 really do work in solitude.
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