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- Donna Tartt: American author
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As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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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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It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
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Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.
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Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
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Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.
Source: The Goldfinch (2013) 450 -
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
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The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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