Quote by Tom Perrotta
I read The Great Gatsby in high school and was hypnotized by the b

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. – Tom Perrotta

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Ive been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade. – Tom Perrotta

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Religion
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I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven. – Tom Perrotta

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Dreams
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When I was writing The Abstinence Teacher, I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. – Tom Perrotta

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teacher
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Beauty is first and foremost an emotion. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Beauty

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won – and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. – Donna Rice

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Beauty

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. – Albert Einstein

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Beauty

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I envy people who drink—at least they know what to blame everything on. – Oscar Levant

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Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. Thats a unique claim in the literature of religion. – Josh McDowell

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Religion

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. – Elihu Root

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Peace

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesnt seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. – James Laughlin

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Poetry