"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life."
-Donna Tartt
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"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.“
-Donna Tartt
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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