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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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Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.
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(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.
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An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.
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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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