"But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know."
-Donna Tartt
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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 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."
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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."
-Marilyn Monroe
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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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"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
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"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."
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"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."
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"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
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"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."
-William Wordsworth
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