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A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph a novel is a film.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
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Marriage
Novel
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Film
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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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If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.
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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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Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
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I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.
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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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