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Out Quotes by Lorrie Moore
- All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost…
- 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…
- The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes…
- It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.
- I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm doing…
- Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
- I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly…
- After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed…
- Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.
- 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…
- Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know…
- My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step…
- I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with…
- What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do:…
- My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate…
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