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Donna Tartt, née le 23 décembre 1963 à Greenwood dans le Mississippi, est une écrivaine américaine.

Elle a été publiée pour la première fois à treize ans, dans une revue littéraire du Mississippi. Elle a étudié au Bennington College dans le Vermont où elle s'est liée d'amitié avec l'écrivain Bret Easton Ellis, à qui elle a dédicacé son chef-d'œuvre, Le Maître des illusions. C'est à ce moment qu'elle a commencé à l'écrire, livre qu'elle a mis huit ans à terminer. Ce roman fut un grand succès de librairie, étant vendu à plus de cinq millions d'exemplaires.

Dix ans après Le Maître des illusions, Donna Tartt publie son deuxième livre : Le Petit Copain. Bien que critiqué par certains des lecteurs du premier roman, il reste dans le style précis et descriptif des personnalités développées par la romancière. Onze ans plus tard, elle récidive avec Le Chardonneret, qui obtient le prix Pulitzer de la fiction.

✵ 23. décembre 1963
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“Elle ne s'intéressait pas aux livres dans lesquels les enfants grandissaient, car (dans la vie comme en littérature) ce processus entrainait un affaiblissement accéléré et inexplicable du caractère; de façon totalement inattendue, les héros et les héroïnes renonçaient à leurs aventures pour un amour insipide, se mariaient et fondaient une famille, et, en général, se comportaient comme un troupeau de vaches.”

Donna Tartt livre Le Petit Copain

The Little Friend

Donna Tartt: Citations en anglais

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

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

Source: The Secret History

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

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

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.”

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Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“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?”

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Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

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

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Donna Tartt livre 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”

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Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“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.”

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

Source: The Secret History

“Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.”

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Donna Tartt livre Le Petit Copain

Source: The Little Friend

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

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

Variante: 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

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

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

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.”

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Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

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

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Donna Tartt livre 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.”

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

Source: The Secret History

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

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Donna Tartt livre 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.”

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“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.”

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

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.”

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

Source: The Secret History

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

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Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

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

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

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.”

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Donna Tartt livre 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.”

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Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

Source: The Secret History

“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;”

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Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.”

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

Source: The Secret History

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

Source: The Secret History

“Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

Source: The Secret History

“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

Source: The Secret History

“Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.”

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

Source: The Secret History

“Who was it that said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?”

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Donna Tartt livre The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.”

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Donna Tartt livre Le Maître des illusions

Source: The Secret History

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