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 count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“From here on in, many things can happen. But the main one will be this: you decide not to go to law… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I don't have a love life. I have a like life.' Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“You only live at once." Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“She would try to live life one day at a time, like an alcoholic--drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I felt nothing like a horse, whose instincts I knew were to run and run. I had mostly in life tried to… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went, " What? " Or worse, feeling interrupted… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“The piece was like an elegant interrogation made of tangled yarn, a query from a well-dressed man in a casket, not yet… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I grew up with 'Life' magazine on the coffee table, Life cereal on the breakfast table, and the game of Life on… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“[Her life] had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“The proper relationship of a writer to his or her own life is similar to a cook with a cupboard. What the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Unless you have a life of great importance, regrets are stupid, crumpled-up tickets to a circus that has already left town.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“All of life seems to me a strange dream about losing things you never had to begin with. About trying to find… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - not bad… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“At that time in my life I was never late. Only a year later would I suddenly have difficulty hanging on to… — 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
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