And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that … - Donna Tartt

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Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

Donna Tartt

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 illusion. Because, between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.

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The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

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I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

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When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

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There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

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There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

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