I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — 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
She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant… — 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
What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when… — 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
Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want… — 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
I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it… — 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
That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit… — 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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