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Most things good for writing are bad for life.

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Writing
Good
Things
Life

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The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.
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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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Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
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If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.
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Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
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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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An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.
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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've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
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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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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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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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You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.
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Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.
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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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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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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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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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(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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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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