"We were in dialogue that was about something……" — Lorrie Moore

"We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying."

— Lorrie Moore

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112 Quotes by Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore has 112 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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More Dialogue Quotes

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Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have… — Alec Baldwin
I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people… — Roseanne Barr
I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted… — Dirk Benedict
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great… — Pope Benedict XVI
The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And… — Orlando Bloom
A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common… — David Bohm
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our… — Madeleine Albright
When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music. — Nicolas Cage
Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but… — Nicolas Cage
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two… — Truman Capote
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between… — George Carey

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