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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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They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
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Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.
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I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
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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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All the world's a stage we're going through.
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Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.
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We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.
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Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than ten minutes a day like sit-ups, they can make you thin
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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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Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce
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One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
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I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!
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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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(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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If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.
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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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But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.
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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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