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Death is the mother of beautyAnd what is beauty?TerrorWell said. Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary, genuine beauty is always quite alarming

Donna Tartt

Death is the mother of beautyAnd what is beauty?TerrorWell said. Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary, genuine beauty is always quite alarming

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About Donna Tartt

Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American novelist and essayist. Her novels are The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013), which has been adapted into a 2019 film of the same name She was included in Time magazine's 2014 "100 Most Influential People" list.