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Book: The Goldfinch
Quotes of Book: The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
Who was it that said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?
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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.
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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
it seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment,
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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
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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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
E per quanto mi piacerebbe credere che ci sia un verità dietro l'illusione, mi sono convinto che non c'è alcuna verità dietro l'illusione. Perché, tra la "relatà" da un lato, e il punto in cui la mente va a sbattere contro la realtà, esiste uno spazio sottile, uno spicchio d'arcobaleno da cui origina la bellezza, il punto in cui due superfici molto diverse tra loro si mescolano e si confondono per procurare ciò che la vita non ci dà: e questo è lo spazio in cui tutta l'arte prende forma, e tutta la magia.
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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
he had an indefinable look of privilege gone wrong,
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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
I stood in the shadiest corner I could find with my mass-market paperback and, with a red pencil, went through and underlined a lot of particularly bracing sentences: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." "A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind." What would Thoreau have made of Las Vegas: its lights and rackets, its trash and daydreams, its projections and hollow façades?
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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
The twilights out there were florid and melodramatic, great sweeps of orange and crimson and Lawrence-in-the-desert vermilion, then night dropping dark and hard like a slammed door.
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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
He was, like me, an only child. His father {born in Siberia, a Ukrainian national from Novoagansk} was in mining and exploration. "Big important job-he travels the world." Boris's mother-his father's second wife-was dead.
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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
My dad at the baccarat table, in the air-conditioned midnight. There's always more to things, a hidden level. Luck in its darker moods and manifestations. Consulting the stars, waiting to make the big bets when Mercury was in retrograde, reaching for a knowledge just beyond the known. Black his lucky color, nine his lucky number. Hit me again pal. There's a pattern and we're a part of it. Yet if you scratched very deep at that idea of pattern {which apparently he had never taken the trouble to do}, you hit an emptiness so dark that it destroyed, categorically, anything you'd ever looked at or thought of as light.
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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life-a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple-the painter is giving you a secret message. He's telling you that living things don't last-it's all temporary. Death in life. That's why they're called natures mortes. Maybe you don't see it at first with all the beauty and bloom, the little speck of rot. But if you look closer-there it is
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Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch
Another thing I figured out, after a few days in the house on Desert End Road: what Xandra and my dad really meant when they said my dad had "stopped drinking" was that he'd switched from Scotch {his beverage of choice} to Corona Lights and Vicodin.
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