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Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
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Glens Falls
New York
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She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, There you go. -- Willing
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I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.
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I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
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Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.
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But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman.
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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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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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If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.
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When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.
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You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
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An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
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All the world's a stage we're going through.
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Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
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If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.
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