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title: "11 Way Quotes By Lorrie Moore"
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> [The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/the-affectionate-farce-i-make-of-him-ignores-the-ways-i-feel-his-lack/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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> [When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/when-she-packed-up-to-leave-she-knew-that-she-was-saying-goodbye-to/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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> [I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-ve-come-to-realize-that-life-while-being-everything-is-also/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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> [Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/some-people-get-their-books-on-the-best-seller-list-and-then-they/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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> [A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/a-story-is-a-kind-of-biopsy-of-human-life-a-story-is-both-local/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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> [Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/everything-one-reads-is-nourishment-of-some-sort-good-food-or-junk/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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> [All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/all-the-way-out-i-listen-to-the-car-am-radio-bad-lyrics-of-trailer/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/basically-i-realized-i-was-living-in-that-awful-stage-of-life-between/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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> [If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/if-you-record-the-world-honestly-there-s-no-way-people-can-stop-being/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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> [If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/if-you-look-at-most-womens-writing-women-writers-will-describe-women/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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> [If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/if-prose-can-cast-a-spell-we-will-listen-to-it-no-matter-what-it-s/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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## Other authors on Way

## More by Lorrie Moore

> [But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/but-i-believed-in-starting-over-there-was-finally-i-knew-only-rupture/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-m-very-interested-in-what-people-will-do-for-money-money-it-s/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/one-of-the-problems-with-people-in-chicago-she-remembered-was-that/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/if-you-had-forgotten-it-would-quickly-come-back-to-you-aloneness-was/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/once-love-had-seemed-like-magic-now-it-seemed-like-tricks/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/observing-others-go-through-them-he-used-to-admire-midlife-crises-the/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/start-dating-someone-who-is-funny-someone-who-has-what-in-high-school/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/you-are-unhappy-because-you-believe-in-such-a-thing-as-happy/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/amber-was-not-shy-if-she-had-been-shy-not-one-of-us-would-be-at/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/people-will-do-anything-anything-for-a-really-nice-laugh/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/farmers-aren-t-rich-they-have-land-but-no-money-actually-my-father/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/my-grandmother-who-when-i-visited-stared-at-me-with-the-staggering/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-count-too-heavily-on-birthdays-though-i-know-i-shouldn-t-inevitably/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [“Life is sad. Here is someone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/life-is-sad-here-is-someone/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

> [I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/i-had-never-feared-insomnia-before-like-prison-wouldn-t-it-just-give/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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