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Lorrie Moore Quotes

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension Picture Quote #1

I don’t have a love life. I have a like life Picture Quote #1

If you record the world honestly, there’s no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn’t get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included Picture Quote #1

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, ‘I never want to see you again.’ Picture Quote #1

An author’s life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character’s remains frozen in one little story Picture Quote #1

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess Picture Quote #1

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My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that Picture Quote #1

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks Picture Quote #1

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy Picture Quote #1

Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way Picture Quote #1

I’ve accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change Picture Quote #1

One should never turn one’s back on a vivid imagination Picture Quote #1

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You know, I’m just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don’t feel pressured to be otherwise Picture Quote #1

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it Picture Quote #1

I don’t care if I’m a fish, I still want a bicycle Picture Quote #1

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them Picture Quote #1

Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real Picture Quote #1

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love Picture Quote #1

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Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy Picture Quote #1

We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend Picture Quote #1

I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn’t. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I’m doing by how many people remember; it’s like the old fantasy of attending your own funeral: You get to see who your friends are, get to see who shows up Picture Quote #1

You couldn’t pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this, it would turn away at something greater, then more and more until your heart stayed averted, immobile, your imagination redistributed away from the world and back only toward the bad maps of yourself, the sour pools of your own pulse, your own tiny, mean, and pointless wants Picture Quote #1

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When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it Picture Quote #1

It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train Picture Quote #1

No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots Picture Quote #1

If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does seem to me to be a kind of animal impulse almost, a mammalian curiosity. For a reader to wonder about the autobiography in a fiction may be completely unavoidable and in fact may speak to the success of a particular narrative, though it may also speak to its failure Picture Quote #1

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself Picture Quote #1

The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing Picture Quote #1

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Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension (Lorrie Moore Quotes) I don’t have a love life. I have a like life (Lorrie Moore Quotes) If you record the world honestly, there’s no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn’t get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included. (Lorrie Moore Quotes) I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, ‘I never want to see you again.’ (Lorrie Moore Quotes) An author’s life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character’s remains frozen in one little story. (Lorrie Moore Quotes) I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess. (Lorrie Moore Quotes) My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that. (Lorrie Moore Quotes) Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks (Lorrie Moore Quotes) You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy (Lorrie Moore Quotes) Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way. (Lorrie Moore Quotes) I’ve accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change (Lorrie Moore Quotes) One should never turn one’s back on a vivid imagination (Lorrie Moore Quotes) You know, I’m just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don’t feel pressured to be otherwise. (Lorrie Moore Quotes) I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it (Lorrie Moore Quotes) I don’t care if I’m a fish, I still want a bicycle (Lorrie Moore Quotes) One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them (Lorrie Moore Quotes) Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real (Lorrie Moore Quotes) She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love (Lorrie Moore Quotes) Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy (Lorrie Moore Quotes) We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying (Lorrie Moore Quotes) 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 (Lorrie Moore Quotes) A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend (Lorrie Moore Quotes) I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn’t. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I’m doing by how many people remember; it’s like the old fantasy of attending your own funeral: You get to see who your friends are, get to see who shows up (Lorrie Moore Quotes) You couldn’t pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this, it would turn away at something greater, then more and more until your heart stayed averted, immobile, your imagination redistributed away from the world and back only toward the bad maps of yourself, the sour pools of your own pulse, your own tiny, mean, and pointless wants (Lorrie Moore Quotes) When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it (Lorrie Moore Quotes) It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train (Lorrie Moore Quotes) No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots (Lorrie Moore Quotes) If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does seem to me to be a kind of animal impulse almost, a mammalian curiosity. For a reader to wonder about the autobiography in a fiction may be completely unavoidable and in fact may speak to the success of a particular narrative, though it may also speak to its failure (Lorrie Moore Quotes) Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself (Lorrie Moore Quotes) The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing (Lorrie Moore Quotes)

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