"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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Source : "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

Tom Perrotta

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“What do you know about dragons?â€ â€œThey're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered up as a sacrifice.â€ His grinned again. â€œI do miss the virgins.”

Source : Katie Macalister (2004). “You Slay Me”, p.49, Penguin
“If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.”
“Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego.”
“Position yourself to succeed first by building good relationships with the right people; and then put your effort and expertise behind that!”
“My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.”
“When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesÂ—things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.”
“Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's.â€Â â€œWell you can't say fairer than that then”
“Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.”

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