Donna Tartt Short Quotes

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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

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I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

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Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us.

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I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

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Who was it said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?

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In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

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I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

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After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great

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Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?

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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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Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

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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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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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Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

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There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial

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Still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life…

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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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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.

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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.

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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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Always remember, the person we're really working for is the person who's restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He's the one we want to impress.

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To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;

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I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

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