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The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'
Lorrie Moore
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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
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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.
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This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!
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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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I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
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Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
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Most things good for writing are bad for life.
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I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
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Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
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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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I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
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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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If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.
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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
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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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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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Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.
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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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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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Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.
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