"Surrealism could not be made up. It was……" — Lorrie Moore
"Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real."
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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 Electricity Quotes
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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and…
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
— Dave Barry
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what…
— Jeff Bezos
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last…
— David Bowie
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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth…
— Bill Bryson
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none…
— James Buchan
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive…
— James Buchan
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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the…
— George W. Bush
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I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I…
— Jane Campion
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Electricity is really just organized lightning.
— George Carlin
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What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that…
— Ray Charles
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