Lorrie Moore Quotes
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Lorrie Moore Famous Quotes & Sayings
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She would try to live life one day at a time, like an alcoholic
drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.
drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
(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.
Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly.
You only live at once. Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have an ordinary life.
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.
They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
She wore a lot of gray-green corduroy. She had been under the impression that it brought out her eyes, those shy stars.
Which is it," she asked. "Is it CLIToris or clotORis?"
I didn't know. Why didn't I know? "It may depend on which you have," I said.
I didn't know. Why didn't I know? "It may depend on which you have," I said.
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.
While my scarcely controlled rage flew from my mouth in sentences I hoped would be, perhaps not then but perhaps later, like knives to her brain.
As a feminist you mustn't blame the other woman," a neighbor told her. "As a feminist I request that you no longer speak to me," Kit replied.)
We got hard hearts, she said with an accent that wasn't really any particular accent at all. She wasn't good at accents.
If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.
I don't have a love life. I have a like life.'
Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love ...
Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love ...
She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it.
Forget being a decent man, Terence. Go for castability. Could you even play a decent man in a movie?
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
Divorce, she could see, would be like marriage - a power grab, as in who would be the dog, and who would be the owner of the dog.
Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.
I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.
Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.
The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air.
These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails.
I was realising that all new feelings from here on in would probably be bad ones. Surprises would no longer be good.
I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.
And all love that had overtaken her would have to be a memory, a truck on the interstate roaring up from the left, a thing she must let pass.
We curl up on the couch together, under a blanket, whisper I love you, I missed you, confusing tenses I think.
Also, he had the kind of mustache a college roommate of hers used to say looked like it had crawled up to find a warm spot to die.
Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
After four movies, three concerts, and two-and-a-half museums, you sleep with him. It seems the right number of cultural events.
Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.
I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.
But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.
he had had some eye work done: a lift to remove the puff and bloat; he would rather look startled and insane than look fifty-six.
Yes," she said. "'I Been Working on the Railroad.'There's just two things I'm worried about with that: the grammar and the use of slave labor.
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.
She knew that the world was not created to speak just to her, and yet, as with her son, sometimes things did.
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.
Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him your bicep.
Through college she had been a feminist - basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.