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Donna Louise Tartt amerikai író. Tartt regényei a Titkos történet , A kis barát és az Aranypinty . Elnyerte a WH Smith irodalmi díjat A kis barátért 2003-ban, és a Szépirodalmi Pulitzer-díjat a The Goldfinch című könyvért 2014-ben. Felkerült a Time magazin 2014-es „100 legbefolyásosabb ember” listájára. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. december 1963
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Donna Tartt: 64 idézet0 Kedvelés

Donna Tartt: Idézetek angolul

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

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Donna Tartt könyv The Secret History

Forrás: 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 könyv The Secret History

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“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 könyv The Goldfinch

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“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 könyv The Goldfinch

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

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Donna Tartt könyv The Goldfinch

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“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 könyv The Goldfinch

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“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 könyv The Secret History

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“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 könyv The Little Friend

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

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Donna Tartt könyv The Secret History

Változat: It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
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“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”

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Donna Tartt könyv The Secret History

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“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 könyv The Goldfinch

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

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Donna Tartt könyv The Goldfinch

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“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 könyv The Secret History

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

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Donna Tartt könyv The Goldfinch

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“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 könyv The Secret History

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“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 könyv The Secret History

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

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Donna Tartt könyv The Goldfinch

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

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Donna Tartt könyv The Secret History

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“… 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 könyv The Goldfinch

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“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 könyv The Goldfinch

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“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 könyv The Secret History

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“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 könyv The Goldfinch

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

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Donna Tartt könyv The Secret History

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“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 könyv The Secret History

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

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Donna Tartt könyv The Secret History

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

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Donna Tartt könyv The Goldfinch

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

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Donna Tartt könyv The Secret History

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