"Humor comes from the surprise release of some……" — Lorrie Moore
"Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension."
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112 Quotes by Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore has 112 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of…
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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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Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity.…
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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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More Buried Quotes
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were…
— Erma Bombeck
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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
— Albert Brooks
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
— Ray Charles
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them:…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth…
— George Clooney
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Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
— George M. Cohan
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Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X
— Tupac Shakur
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
— George Ellery Hale
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Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings…
— Marianne Williamson
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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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