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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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We love even when our love is not requited.
— Mortimer Adler
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O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill…
— William Shakespeare
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That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For many, love is a two-sided coin. It can strengthen or stifle, expand or enfeeble, perfect or pauperize. When love is returned,…
— Colleen Houck
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For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to…
— Kathleen McGowan
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Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.
— Violet Trefusis
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He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that…
— Alex Haley
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