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Up Quotes by Lorrie Moore
- To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
- Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.
- She had, without realizing it at the time, learned to follow Nick's gaze, learned to learn his lust...his desires remained memorized within her. She looked…
- 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…
- No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all…
- Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your…
- When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because…
- 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…
- The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you’re already male to begin with poses…
- Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold