"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."

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"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."

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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Reality, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Reality, World, Existence, Night, Voice

"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Reality, Chaos, Emotion, Music, Thought

"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Reality, Life, Death, Suffering

"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Reality, Thoughts, Destiny, Perception

"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Reality, Sadness, Life, Purpose, Truth

"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Reality, Horror, Disgust, Perception

"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Reality, Pace, Limits, Perception

"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Reality, Culture, World, Truth, Self

Explore more quotes by Donna Tartt

"Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device."

Murder

"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."

Expectation

"Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel."

Writing

"To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone."

Time

"The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences."

Creativity

"In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out."

Work

"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."

Writing

"I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there."

Family

"I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much."

Work

"You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it."

Experience