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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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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 dont really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when Im writing. The two go together – Im interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes. – Tom Perrotta

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I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of lifes mystery and unpredictability, of lifes generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. – Jane Smiley

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Its hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order. – Story Musgrave

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Beauty — in projection and perceiving — is 99.9% attitude. – Grey Livingston

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I like the beauty of Faulkners poetry. But I dont like his themes, not at all. – Manuel Puig

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Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. – Jeanette Winterson

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Its become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And its positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but Im really proud of the NHS. – Lucy Powell

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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today theres a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and its all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record. – Neil Young

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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. – Truman Capote

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