"From a distance, it makes perfect sense that……" — Tom Perrotta
"From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise."
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48 Quotes by Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta has 48 quotes on this site.
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Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.
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Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.
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It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.
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Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has…
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She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back…
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I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.
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I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few…
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I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to…
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I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.
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I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with…
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I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
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It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing…
— Willa Cather
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The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never…
— Ernest Rutherford
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It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of…
— Carl Jung
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The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem…
— Unknown Author
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Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back…
— Peter De Vries
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same…
— George Bernard Shaw
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You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with…
— Itzhak Perlman
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Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract,…
— Sharon Salzberg
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The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and…
— Frank Rich
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