"I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't……" — Lorrie Moore
"I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?"
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Lorrie Moore
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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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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace.…
— Teresa of Avila
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a…
— William Jennings Bryan
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
— C.S. Lewis
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Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I…
— Cotton Mather
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Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be…
— Sun Tzu
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Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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