"He'd never had to make the adjustments and……" — Tom Perrotta
"He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body."
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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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In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans,…
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm…
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
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