A Quote by Donna Tartt

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
American - Writer
Born: December 23, 1963

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

Christian Louboutin

You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

Margaret Atwood

Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty

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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

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Truman Capote

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Frederick Lenz

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.

Joan Didion

From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

Robert M. Pirsig

When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

Margaret Atwood

Straight edge is everything about a personal decision to not live my life under the influence or not being aware. I pretty much don't like anything that alters my view of reality or my perception or my grasp.

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I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

Henry Miller

The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.

JC Chasez

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

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Paulo Coelho

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

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