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She would try to live life one day at a time, like an alcoholicdrink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs. — Lorrie Moore
There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
— Lorrie Moore
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
— Lorrie Moore
I had never feared insomnia beforelike prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read? — Lorrie Moore
Life is sad. Here is someone.
— Lorrie Moore
So I needed to be womanised. I was losing my sheen.
— Lorrie Moore
From Charades: when she was younger she was a frustrated mother, so she is pleased when her children act as is they don't remember
— Lorrie Moore
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.
— Lorrie Moore
Philosophize: you are a mistress, part of a great hysterical you mean historical tradition.
— Lorrie Moore
Life is a field of corn. Literature is the shot glass it distills down into. Lorrie Moore
— Mary Karr
I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.
— Lorrie Moore
She knew that the world was not created to speak just to her, and yet, as with her son, sometimes things did.
— Lorrie Moore
Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.
— Lorrie Moore
Marriage, she felt, was a fine arrangement generally, except that one never got it generally. One got it very, very specifically.
— Lorrie Moore
Through college she had been a feminist - basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.
— Lorrie Moore
I said nothing. If she wasn't careful, everyone would rush out of her life, life out of a burning building.
— Lorrie Moore
She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.
— Lorrie Moore
The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.
— Lorrie Moore
Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'
— Lorrie Moore
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.
— Lorrie Moore
It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really.
— Lorrie Moore
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.
— Lorrie Moore
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. — Lorrie Moore
At times like these, she thought, it was probably a good idea to carry a small hand puppet.
— Lorrie Moore
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.
— Lorrie Moore
I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.
— Lorrie Moore
This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.
— Lorrie Moore
I'm going to marry you till you puke.
— Lorrie Moore
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.
— Lorrie Moore
The turkeys I eat are raised on farms. They're different. They've signed on the dotted line.
— Lorrie Moore
Most things good for writing are bad for life.
— Lorrie Moore
Precancer?' she had repeated quietly, for she was a quiet woman. 'Isn't that ... like life?
— Lorrie Moore
Quilty grimaces. "I don't like what comes after 'dicker.' " "What is that?" Quilty sighs. "Dickest. I mean, really: it's not a contest!
— Lorrie Moore
I was realising that all new feelings from here on in would probably be bad ones. Surprises would no longer be good.
— Lorrie Moore
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.
— Lorrie Moore
This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
— Lorrie Moore
She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.
— Lorrie Moore
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.
— Lorrie Moore
People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh,
— Lorrie Moore
Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.
— Lorrie Moore
Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.
— Lorrie Moore
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
— Lorrie Moore
After four movies, three concerts, and two-and-a-half museums, you sleep with him. It seems the right number of cultural events.
— Lorrie Moore
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.
— Lorrie Moore
Literature, of course, is not a contest.
— Lorrie Moore
She decided it was perhaps a little like marriage itself: a good idea that, like all ideas, lived awkwardly on earth. -Terrific Mother
— Lorrie Moore
Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
— Lorrie Moore
That's not the one you were thinking of?" "No." There was accusation in her voice. "Mine was different, — Lorrie Moore
We curl up on the couch together, under a blanket, whisper I love you, I missed you, confusing tenses I think.
— Lorrie Moore
There is something comforting, thinks Mack, in embracing someone the same size as you.
— Lorrie Moore
I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
— Lorrie Moore
Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.
— Lorrie Moore
When affection fell on its ass, politeness could step up.
— Lorrie Moore
I wondered about the half-life of regret.
— Lorrie Moore
She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?
— Lorrie Moore
This danish is too sweetish to finish.
— Lorrie Moore
She had expected a pistol to seem light and natural-a seamless extension of her angry feral self.
— Lorrie Moore
It is like having a book out from the library.It is like constantly having a book out from the library. — Lorrie Moore
She would turn from him in bed, her hands under the pillow, the digital clock peeling back the old skins of numbers.
— Lorrie Moore
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.
— Lorrie Moore
Zoe tried to sound like an older sister.
— Lorrie Moore
The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air.
— Lorrie Moore
Her voice was husky, vibrating, slightly flat, coming in just under each note like a saucer under a cup.
— Lorrie Moore
Get a Job, she shouted silently to God. Get a real Job.
— Lorrie Moore