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Other Quotes by Donna Tartt
- There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from…
- It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
- Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children -…
- On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to…
- 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…
- As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks - it seemed more…
- Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp…
- Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.
- We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and…
- 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…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour