"Rather than a teaching tool, I think a……" — Lorrie Moore
"Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story."
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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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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that…
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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe…
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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the…
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It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's…
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The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets…
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea…
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and…
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Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach…
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Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in…
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Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate…
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If we dwell in spirit, or Soul, we are living in happiness, for Soul is a happy entity. It is…
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