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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
— Guy de Maupassant
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If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly…
— Lorrie Moore
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I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
— Edward Carpenter
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There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle…
— Raymond Chandler
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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
— Rick Moody
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
— Arthur Miller
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Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was…
— Paul Theroux
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The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.
— Lisa See
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There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life…
— Anne Lamott
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My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a…
— Mark Twain
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