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An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
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Different
Complexes
Life
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Stories
Character
Ongoing
Littles
Frozen

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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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Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. 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 hair-brush and told, There you go. She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush.
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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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It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.
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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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Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.
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Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
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Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.
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I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
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I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
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Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.
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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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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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I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.
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An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.
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I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
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Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.
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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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Most things good for writing are bad for life.
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Plots are for dead people.
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