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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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People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip.
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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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