All Lorrie Moore Quotes
- I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it. Inspirational
- One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination. Imagination
- No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all… All
- All the world's a stage we're going through. All
- Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. Area
- Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your… All
- Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life… Been
- Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one. All
- When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because… Bad
- Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly. Another Planet
- I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one… Ago
- I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him… Bicep
- She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there? Asked
- She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime. Crime
- You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this,… Averted
- The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing. Affectionate
- She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love. Afraid
- This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But… Fastidiousness
- She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at… Across
- I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how. Fool