Truth Quotes by Donna Tartt

9 Truth quotes by Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt’s reflections on truth are literary, compact, each line a carefully crafted glimpse into the moral core of her narratives. With nine short entries, the page offers a refined, thoughtful look at honesty.

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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.

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“Let’s both be good, and truthful, and kind to each other, and let’s be happy together and have fun always.”

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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life

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“only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, understand.”

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“I don’t care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to…

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“…I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, understand. What’s mysterious,…

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“And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - although I've come to…

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“Because I don’t care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able…

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And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond…

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“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I…

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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

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Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we…

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“The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. “You don’t have to talk,” she…

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“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and…

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“You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such…

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“maybe that’s what’s waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through…

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“lights and moods and seasons was to see it a thousand different ways and to keep it shut in the dark—a thing made of…

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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…

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“Upon meeting Julian Morrow, one has the impression that he is a man of extraordinary sympathy and warmth. But what you call his 'Asiatic…

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