But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood on the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
