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
Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time. — 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 think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does. — 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 always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“This is Quilty's audition ritual: whenever he feels it is time for it, he calls upon himself to audition for love. He… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its… — 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
To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn't have to do… — 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
Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“the whole idea that people have a clue as to how the world works, is just a piece of laughable metaphysical colonialism… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“She recognized the panic at even a moment's boredom that all these piles contained, as well as the unreasonable hopefulness regarding time.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“At times like these, she thought, it was probably a good idea to carry a small hand puppet.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I tell them dance begins when a moment of hurt combines with a moment of boredom. I tell them it's the body's… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I had seen this exact same expression and movement before - where? In the future I would come to know that look… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“I remember thinking that once there had been a time when women died of brain fevers caught from the prick of their… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
She had, without realizing it at the time, learned to follow Nick's gaze, learned to learn his lust...his desires remained memorized within… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“1976. The Bicentennial. In the laundromat, you want for the time on your coins to run out. Through the porthole of the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“It broke her heart that they had come to this: if one knew the future, all the unexpected glimpses of the beloved,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Through all the muck of themselves, the times they had unobligated each other, the anger, the permitted absences, the loneliness grown dangerous,… — 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
