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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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Wisdom alone is true ambitions aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. – Alfred North Whitehead

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I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. – Robert Cormier

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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. – Baltasar Gracian

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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone. – Pete Rose

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