That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, 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.
And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘rea… - Donna Tartt
And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘rea…
- Donna Tartt
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. - Donna Tartt
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life - Donna Tartt
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life
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 researc… - Donna Tartt
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 researc…
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. - Donna Tartt
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. - Donna Tartt
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
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… - Donna Tartt
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…
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. - Donna Tartt
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness. - Donna Tartt
Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
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