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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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Glens Falls
New York
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Most things good for writing are bad for life.
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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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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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It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.
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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 want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.
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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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They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
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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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Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.
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If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.
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I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this, he says. Say: Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough. Show him your bicep.
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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.
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I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.
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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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Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.
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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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A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.
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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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