"This was love, I supposed, and eventually I……" — Lorrie Moore
"This was love, I supposed, and eventually I would come to know it. Someday it would choose me and I would come to know its spell, for long stretches and short, two times, maybe three, and then quite probably it would choose me never again."
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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…
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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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