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