Quote by Donna Tartt
To really be centered and to really work well and to think about t

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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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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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

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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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Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. – Coco Chanel

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Well try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone. – John Abizaid

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When Im alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Im so accustomed to being alone. – Leighton Meester

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