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One Quotes by Lorrie Moore
- For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other.…
- Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a…
- 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…
- If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
- If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly blood transfusions, or…
- This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
- One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.
- Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
- 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…
- I feared Sarah was one of those women who instead of laughing said, "That's funny," or instead of smiling said, "That's interesting," or instead of…
- It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train…
- 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,…
- You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
- One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
- Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt