Lorrie Moore Quotes

• All the world’s a stage we’re going through.

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

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

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

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• Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

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• A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

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

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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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