Quotes by Lorrie Moore

About Lorrie Moore:

Lorrie Moore is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories.
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My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step out for groceries, they will ask me, "Hi, do you have any kids?" and then, "Why not, don't you like kids?" "I like kids," I wil...

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Life is sad. Here is someone.

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I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

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They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

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Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

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Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

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Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a big boom sound.

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She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

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He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bodilessness of it, and started to turn down social engagements. He didn't want to actually sit across from someone in a restaurant, look at their face, ...

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Tell me something wonderful," he said to Dane. "Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep." "You're always writing one of your plays on the phone," said Dane. "I said, something wonderful. Say something about springtime." "It...

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But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.

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She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.

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Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing.

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I don't have a love life. I have a like life.' Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love...

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It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.

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This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

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Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a big sound.

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Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he doesn't know who Coriolanus is. That since you moved in you've noticed he rarely reads. He will give you a hurt, hungry-to-learn look, with hi...

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Why do you haunt me? You, like a tattoo on my tongue, like the bay leaf at the bottom of every pan. You who sprawled out beside me and sang my horoscope to a Schubert symphony, something about travel and money again, and we lay there, both of our bre...

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It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe.

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Author Bio

  • NameLorrie Moore
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJanuary 13, 1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Faculty
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship