"Blasts from the past were like the rooms……" — Lorrie Moore
"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, they had changed - they suddenly had more space or a tilt or a door that had not been there before. New people were milling around, the floors undulated, and the sun shone newly, strangely in the windows, or through the now blasted-open ceiling, or else it shone not at all, as if having fled the sky."
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Lorrie Moore
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112 Quotes by Lorrie Moore
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All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic…
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For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
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