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“Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.” quote by Lorrie Moore — Download Open image

“Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.”

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But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the…

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I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

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Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

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“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teacher, produce and star in a full-blown one of her own, he found the sufferers of such crises not only self-indulgent but greedy and demented, and he wished them…

Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all…

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

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“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.”

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People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh,

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“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;…

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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