Quote by Donna Tartt
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that theyre learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences. – Donna Tartt

Other quotes by Donna Tartt

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. – Donna Tartt

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alone
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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. – Donna Tartt

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funny
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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. – Donna Tartt

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I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and its a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. Ive always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another. – Stephen Daldry

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I think thats whats great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there. – Jaime King

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Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. – Vilfredo Pareto

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. – Willa Cather

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But perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster. – Anton Chekhov

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The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)

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Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time. – George S. Patton

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