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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
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Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Scenery
Painting
Art
Truth
Love
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One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.
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An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.
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Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
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I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
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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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When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.
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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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Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
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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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Plots are for dead people.
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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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