Lorrie Moore Quotes

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• You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise. Boring
• Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real. Electricity
• I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are… Actual
• (Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart. Country
• Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself. Arrangement
• She had, without realizing it at the time, learned to follow Nick's gaze, learned to learn his lust...his desires remained memorized within her. She looked… Attractive
• The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes… Affair
• Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans… Blood
• It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library. Book
• That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that -… All
• This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic. Bad Relationship
• Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there… Athletic
• Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a… Begin
• 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… Been
• Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks. Inspirational
• You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy. Believe
• When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean… Essentially
• Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had. Warren Lasher Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano Charles Deats or Keats Alfonse Tuck it in your pocket.… Alfonse
• I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change. Accrued
• 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 doing… Assess

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