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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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Novelist
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Glens Falls
New York
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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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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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A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.
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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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A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.
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I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.
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Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. 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 hair-brush and told, There you go. She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush.
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[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.
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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.
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They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
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If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.
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Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.
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I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are.
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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.
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She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?
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I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.
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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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No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.
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I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.
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