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Lorrie Moore has 112 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to…
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Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or…
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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…
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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…
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For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one…
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There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
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Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb…
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The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.…
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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…
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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your…
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To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you…
— Gautama Buddha
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All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling…
— Jay Griffiths
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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you…
— Alan Watts
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My light shines when things get really tough.
— Tippi Hedren
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Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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In the broken places, the light shines through.
— Leonard Cohen
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The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more…
— Reba McEntire
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When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.
— Jon Krakauer
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It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all.…
— Alison Croggon
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The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it
— Ted Dekker
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