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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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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I think Im fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, its impossible to ignore. – Tom Perrotta

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Beauty and femininity are ageless and cant be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers wont like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour its based on femininity. – Marilyn Monroe

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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty — they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. – Martin Buxbaum

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You cant possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until youve felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial. – Sloane Crosley

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Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture – and forget that merchandise must be sold. – James Randolph Adams

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There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? – Robert Kennedy

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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. – William Blake

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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. – Rumi

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Time itself comes in drops. – William James

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