"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life."
-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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"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."
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