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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
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Novelist
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Glens Falls
New York
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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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When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with.
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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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I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!
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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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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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I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.
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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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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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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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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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If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.
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Most things good for writing are bad for life.
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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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You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.
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One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.
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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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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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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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Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering the clocks stop and go and stop.
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