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Kind Quotes by Lorrie Moore
- Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When…
- Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they…
- 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…
- If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does…
- I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
- 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…
- When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will…
- But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best…
- A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered,…
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- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! — Dan Aykroyd