Jobs Quotes by Elliot Perlman

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Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning they all offer more or less the same and no one know how it will go…

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You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

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“...Simon and I by then were practicing to be apart, rehearsing together in the same room and often in the same conversation.”

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“When the words dance privately for you, it is possible to feel not alone.”

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“Madeline, my wife, never used to wear a watch. She does now, I am told. For a long time, in a very inexact way, I had kept time for her. There was the time before we were married and the time after. There was the time before I was hospitalised and the time after. There was the time she needed…

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“…anyway it wasn’t your reading that started this. It was the laugher, the carefree laughter, the three dimensional Coca Cola advertisement that you were, the try-anything-once friends, the imperviousness to all that came before you, the chain phone calls, the in-jokes, the instant success, the beach houses, the white lace underwear, the private dancing, the good-graced acceptance pf part-time shift…

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“While he recognized that you were unhappy and unwell, I think he couldn't help but feel that there was some part of you, some part bound inextricably to your illness, that everybody could do with a little more of. Not the melancholy, of course, or even the capacity for quips and one-liners ("Give me lithium or give me death," remember?).…

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“I asked her where she got her toughness. She pretended she didn't understand. Maybe she didn't at first, or maybe she had forgotten that…

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“He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did. He sits in his car at traffic lights on his…

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At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up.…

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Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning…

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Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect…

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It's like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but it burned.…

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