Donna Tartt Quotes
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
Donna Tartt
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
Orson Welles
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
B. F. Skinner
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
Karl Ove Knausgard
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
Dan Millman
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The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.
Rachel Johnson
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I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.
Hanneli Mustaparta
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I would love to have my own lingerie line.
Kate Upton
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,-a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In a constantly revolving circle every point is simultaneously a point of departure and a point of return. If we interrupt the rotation, not every point of departure is a point of return.
Karl Marx
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...habits are happiness of a sort...
Randall Jarrell
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When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on them at that time. In fact, he discovered the model species Dictyostelium discoideum, which is the species used in the majority of the experimental work today.
John Tyler Bonner
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They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!
Louise Jameson
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When people hear I have six kids and 16 grandkids, they think, 'Oh, boy, you must get a lot of stories from them.' I don't. It's not like I'm behind the sofa in the living room taking notes while the grandkids carry on.
Jerry Spinelli
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'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
Kip Thorne
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Adrian Clayborn is somebody that relentlessly brings that attitude, energy, and toughness.
Dan Quinn
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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
Donna Tartt
