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Thomas R. Perrotta is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels Election and Little Children , both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film version of Little Children with Todd Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also known for his novel The Leftovers , which has been adapted into a TV series on HBO. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. August 1961
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Works

The Leftovers
The Leftovers
Tom Perrotta
The Abstinence Teacher
Election
Election
Tom Perrotta
The Leftovers
The Leftovers
Tom Perrotta
The Abstinence Teacher
Election
Election
Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta: 10 quotes1 like

Famous Tom Perrotta Quotes

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

Tom Perrotta

Source: Joe College

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

Tom Perrotta The Abstinence Teacher

Source: The Abstinence Teacher

“Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.”

Tom Perrotta book The Leftovers

Source: The Leftovers

“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”

Tom Perrotta Election

Source: Election

“It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.”

Tom Perrotta book Little Children

Source: Little Children

“From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.”

Tom Perrotta

Source: Joe College

Tom Perrotta Quotes

“There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67)”

Tom Perrotta book The Leftovers

Source: The Leftovers

“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.”

Tom Perrotta book The Leftovers

Source: The Leftovers

“That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.”

Tom Perrotta book The Leftovers

Source: The Leftovers

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

Tom Perrotta The Abstinence Teacher

Source: The Abstinence Teacher

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