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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
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Plots are for dead people.
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Most things good for writing are bad for life.
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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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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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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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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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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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An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.
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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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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.
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When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.
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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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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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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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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 hairbrush and told, There you go. -- Willing
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You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex?
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One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.
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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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Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
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