The goldfinch pulitzer prize5/18/2023 ![]() That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.”ĩ. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn’t understand. “It’s not about outward appearances but inward significance. “The world won’t come to me… so I must go to it.”Ĩ. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. Goldfinch (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014) - 9780349139630 - Contemporan - Donna Tartts phenomenally acclaimed new novel. ![]() “We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”Ħ. “‘When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Sometimes all you can do is not get caught.”ĥ. ![]() You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”Ĥ. “You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. ![]() We don’t get to choose the people we are.”ģ. Gone is The Goldfinch, and with it the beloved lost hierarchical world of Beauty and Art and Culture (and dark people, presumably, in their places where they belong, serving). We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us and what’s good for other people. Adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the movie. “A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. The Goldfinch has a painting at its center, but despite a classy palette of ingredients conjures a lifeless, disjointed picture. Only – if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things – beautiful things- that they connect you to some larger beauty?”Ģ. 1.”Caring too much for objects can destroy you. ![]()
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