I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show… — 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
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die. — 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
“Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...” — 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
“The catalog showed a man sleeping peacefully while his model-wife read a book in soft but focused light. In real life, however,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“it seemed one could just say are you serious? for the rest of existence and it would never be unjustified and would… — lorrie moore Copy Share Image
I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is… — 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
Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you… — 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
“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
“Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing… — 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
“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
“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
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
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
Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“John had dreamed so long and hard of this place that he had hoped it right out of existence. Probably no place… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be… — 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 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
“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
“A woman had to choose her own particular unhappiness carefully. That was the only happiness in life: to choose the best unhappiness.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Unless you have a life of great importance," she said, regrets are stupid, crumpled-up tickets to a circus that has already left… — 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
“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
Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself. — 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
“[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
I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things.… — 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
![“[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a…” quote by Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/056/lorrie-moore-870_civilization_t-he-normal-and-the-everyday-are-often-a_825089.jpg)
![“[Her life] had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with…” quote by Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d2b/lorrie-moore-870_brushes_her-life-had-taken-on-the-shape-of-a-ter_969343.jpg)
