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

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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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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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.



Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.



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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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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.



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

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



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.

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.



Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.



I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.



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

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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I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.



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The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.



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