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When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.
Lorrie Moore
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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
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The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.
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People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip.
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Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply.
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When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with.
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I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.
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If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.
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