Donna Tartt quotes - page 2

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us. (Donna Tartt)
There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial. View quote
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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? View quote
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To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone. View quote
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All those layers of silence upon silence. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. View quote
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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. (Donna Tartt)
When you feel homesick,' he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go. View quote
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Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we? View quote
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The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. View quote
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. View quote
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The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences. View quote
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Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. "And what is beauty?” "Terror. View quote
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On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business. View quote
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Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties. View quote
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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. View quote
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But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, "how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?' Henry lit a cigarette. "I prefer to think of it,” he had said, "as redistribution of matter. (Donna Tartt)
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. View quote
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So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter. View quote
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Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either. View quote
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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. View quote
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