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
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
They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die. — 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
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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
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
There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could… — 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
“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
“Wake up one morning with a man you had thought you'd spend your life with, and realize, a rock in your gut,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
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
“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
“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
“I said nothing. If she wasn't careful, everyone would rush out of her life, life out of a burning building.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everyone had their own way of preparing to die. Life got you ready.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a… — 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
