"I wondered about the half-life of regret." — Lorrie Moore
"I wondered about the half-life of regret."
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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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More Half Quotes
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
— David Attenborough
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
— David Attenborough
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
— Jane Austen
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
— Jane Austen
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
— Teresa of Avila
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
— Charles Babbage
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My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.
— Sebastian Bach
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
— Francis Bacon
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