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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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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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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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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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She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?
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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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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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If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writers description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. Theyre looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.
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Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
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One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.
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Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.
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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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I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
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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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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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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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One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
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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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An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.
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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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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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