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I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.
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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Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.
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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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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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An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.
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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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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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[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.
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