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Donna Tartt Quotes

Donna Tartt quotes about life

American Novelist, Writer December 23, 1963

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It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen. Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together–my future, my past, the whole... Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt quote: "Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth..."
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life. Donna Tartt
There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death -those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement- been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death. Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt quote: "But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very..."
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. Donna Tartt
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. Donna Tartt
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. Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt quote: "Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack..."
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? Donna Tartt
I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever; for me, it was that first fall term I spent at Hampden. Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt quote: "Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction."
Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction. Donna Tartt

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