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Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.
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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If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.
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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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I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.
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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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I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this, he says. Say: Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough. Show him your bicep.
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I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
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A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph a novel is a film.
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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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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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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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If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.
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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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Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.
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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 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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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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Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.
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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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This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!
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