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Donna Tartt

Birthdate: 23. December 1963

Donna Tartt is an American writer, the author of the novels The Secret History , The Little Friend , and The Goldfinch . Tartt won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch in 2014. She was included in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" list, compiled in 2014. Wikipedia

Works

The Secret History

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The Goldfinch

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The Little Friend

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Quotes Donna Tartt

„But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.“

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

„though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.“

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

„I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.“

— Donna Tartt, book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Secret, Laughter, Light, Universe

„In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.“

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

„Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.“

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Variant: It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
Source: The Secret History

„Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?“

— Donna Tartt, book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

„Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.“

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

„A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.“

— Donna Tartt, book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

People, Understanding, Heart

„Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.“

— Donna Tartt, book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

„You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life“

— Donna Tartt, book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

„Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.“

— Donna Tartt, book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

„I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.“

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

„When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.“

— Donna Tartt, book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

„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.“

— Donna Tartt

People, Books, Sadness, Travel

„Are you happy here?" I said at last.
He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.“

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

„There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.“

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

Love, Beauty, Wedding

„Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.“

— Donna Tartt, book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

„It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.“

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

„… 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.“

— Donna Tartt, book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

„Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.“

— Donna Tartt, book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

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