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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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(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.
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Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
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When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.
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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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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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When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.
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Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
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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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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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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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If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.
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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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One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.
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Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
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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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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.
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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 hairbrush and told, There you go. -- Willing
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Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.
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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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