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An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
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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One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.
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You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex?
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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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The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'
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Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
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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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Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
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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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I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
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Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.
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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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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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A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.
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But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.
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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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Most things good for writing are bad for life.
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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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Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.
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