Tom Perrotta Quotes

• Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

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  Pensar, Personas, Miradas

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• When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

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  Thinking, Genius, World

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• He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

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  Book, Thinking, Made

  Tom Perrotta (2006). “Joe College: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan

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• They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.

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  Inspiración, motivación, ser uno mismo

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• My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

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  Exciting, Novel, My Own

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• After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.

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  Children, People, Choices

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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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 that level of control.

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  Writing, Expression, Directors

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• It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he would have happily attended church on a regular basis.

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  Morning, Church, Together

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.218, St. Martin's Press

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• 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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  Life, Distance, Thinking

  Tom Perrotta (2006). “Joe College: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan

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• It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

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  People, Silence, Littles

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought about fiction as a craft and an art form. I feel like I know a lot about it, and can trust my instincts.

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  Art, College, Instinct

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Cada minuto que pasábamos juntos, me sentía como si vagara a oscuras por una casa extraña, buscando a tientas un interruptor de la luz. Y cuando lo encontraba y lo encendía, la bombilla se apagaba.

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  Breakup, Dark, Light

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

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  Lost Love, School, Stories

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• It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

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  Race, Misery, Humans

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.

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  Cheating, Alternatives, Hunger

  Tom Perrotta (2013). “Little Children”, p.144, Allison & Busby

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• She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.

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  Life, Girl, Inspiration

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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• To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn’t hurt me at all.

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  Hurt, Pain, Mind

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

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  Broken, Forever, Invisible

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• I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

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  Summer, College, Men

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• Se podría decir que este libro está sacado de los titulares, pero no sería justo. La fascinante novela de Bret Anthony Johnston retoma la historia donde la prensa sensacionalista la deja, y nos lleva a lugares donde ni siquiera el mejor periodismo puede llegar. Recuérdame así es una novela sabia, conmovedora e inquietante sobre la familia y la identidad, y un inventario lúcido de la pérdida y la redención.

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  Wise, Book, Moving

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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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  People, Tragedy, Littles

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

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  Forever, World, Lasts

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

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  Suffering, Lasts, Loved Ones

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• Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

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  Lying, Dark, Minutes

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• The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.

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  Writing, Years, Two

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 7, 2007.

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