"The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out."

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Source : "A Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of THE LITTLE FRIEND". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

Donna Tartt

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“On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?”
“Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.”
“Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.”

Source : "Completing my new show was the only thing that saved me from suicide" by Hermione Eyre, The Independent, July 15, 2007.
“People come up to me at conventions and say, 'I was such an outcast, I felt like such a geek, and when I saw you, you made me feel like such a normal person.' It's my favorite thing to hear, because that's how I felt when I was a kid. If Goth would've been around, I would've definitely been Goth. But there wasn't such a thing, so I was just weird.”
“Well, back to the old drawing board.”

Source : Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 1941
“In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.”
“You're the only one and only My heart's beating for I love you, need I say more”

Source : Song: Need I Say More, Album: Blue Clear Sky
“Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.”

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