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• Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.

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• Literature…is lonely and waited for, brilliant and pure and frightened, a marriage of birds, a conversation of the blind.

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• Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

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• Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

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• I’ve accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

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• One should never turn one’s back on a vivid imagination.

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• Philosophize: you are a mistress, part of a great hysterical you mean historical tradition.

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• It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really.

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• If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

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• Philosophers are good at parties but not for cleaning up after.

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• A veteran of the gender wars.

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• A lie to the faithless is merely a conversation in their language.

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• It’s a form of terrorism not to bomb this town.

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• Life is sad. Here is someone.

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• One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

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

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• Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured.

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• Such a life engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

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• Don’t make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

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• I wondered about the half-life of regret.

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Lorrie Moore (28)

Birth:	13th January, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Lorrie Moore is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories. She attended St. Lawrence University. At 19, she won Seventeen magazine's fiction contest. After graduating from St. Lawrence, she moved to Manhattan and worked as a paralegal for two years.

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