"Perhaps we had at last reached that stage……" — Lorrie Moore

"Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy."

— Lorrie Moore

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112 Quotes by Lorrie Moore

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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…
Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of…
All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic…
Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity.…
For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick…
There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling…
The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother…
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes…
Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story,…
To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as… — Saint Basil
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. — Henry Ward Beecher
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his… — David Bowie
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. — Sitting Bull
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. — Leo Buscaglia
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking… — Raymond Chandler
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the… — Hugo Chavez
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. — John Cleese
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. — Seneca the Younger
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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