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Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore

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Famous Lorrie Moore Quotes

“You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.”

Lorrie Moore

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”

Lorrie Moore

“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.”

Lorrie Moore

“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…”

Lorrie Moore Birds of America

Source: Birds of America

“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.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Self-Help

“She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Like Life

Lorrie Moore Quotes about love

“Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.”

Lorrie Moore

“I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Anagrams

“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Like Life

Lorrie Moore Quotes about life

“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.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Self-Help

“Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.”

Lorrie Moore Birds of America

Source: Birds of America

“They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Anagrams

“There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went, "" Or worse, feeling interrupted and tired, "Wha—?”

Lorrie Moore Birds of America

Source: Birds of America

“A woman had to choose her own particular unhappiness carefully. That was the only happiness in life: to choose the best unhappiness. An unwise move, good God, you could squander everything.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Bark: Stories

Lorrie Moore Quotes

“All the world's a stage we're going through.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Anagrams

“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Like Life

“Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a bigsound.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Like Life

“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.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Self-Help

“Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.”

Lorrie Moore

“I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Anagrams

“Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Like Life

“I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?”

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

“It is like having a book out from the library.
It is like constantly having a book out from the library.”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Self-Help

“Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than ten minutes a day; like sit-ups, they can make you thin”

Lorrie Moore

Source: Self-Help

“Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.”

Lorrie Moore

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