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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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 is everything. – Jorja Fox

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Beauty

A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. – Xenophon

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Beauty

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasnt doing. – Theodore Bikel

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Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. – Shana Alexander

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