Quotes by Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore

(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.

Country

Despair

Heart

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[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.

Civilization

Dust

Rain

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A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it’s really scary.

Dark

Pages Turning

Scary

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A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

Lines

Mood

Needs

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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.

Jobs

Weekend

Years

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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.

Film

Stories

Writing

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Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.

Children

Country

Real

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After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed very tired to me, as if hope had been wrung out of them and replaced with a deathly, walking sort of sleep.

Fate

Sleep

Tired

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All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost and found love, lost and found and lost love, lost and lost and lost love—some people were having no luck at all. The DJ sounds quick and smooth and after-shaved, the rest of the world a mess by comparison.

Light

Lost Love

People

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

Stage

World

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