"Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help.……" — Lorrie Moore
"Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world."
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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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More Cannot Help Quotes
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When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father.…
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And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
— Ray Bradbury
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I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help…
— David Byrne
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman…
— Lord Byron
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
— Mark Twain
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You love simply because you cannot help it.
— Unknown Author
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Every time I see the sunshine in the bright blue sky, I cannot help but think how blessed I really…
— Donna Karan
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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they…
— Swami Vivekananda
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