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From Quotes by Lorrie Moore
- The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same…
- People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that…
- It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.
- No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all…
- Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly.
- 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,…
- The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of…
- Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them,…
- Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
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