Lorrie Moore Quotes


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. Lorrie Moore Education 83
A short story is a love affair a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph a novel is a film. Lorrie Moore Novels 80
This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic. Lorrie Moore Love 49
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. Lorrie Moore Sadness 44
The key to marriage she concluded was just not to take the thing too personally. Lorrie Moore Marriage 43
She was afraid and the afraid she realized sought opportunities for bravery in love. Lorrie Moore Bravery 35
I had one elegantly folded cookiea short paper nerve baked in an ear. Lorrie Moore Food 32
But that inadequacy or feeling of inadequacy never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain regardless. Lorrie Moore Confidence 29
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 wasnt a big boom sound. Lorrie Moore Men 28
This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something shed noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers Lorrie Moore Morality 27
I would never understand photography the sneaky murderous taxidermy of it. Lorrie Moore Photography 27
It reminded me of how children always thought too big how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe. Lorrie Moore Childhood 25
I was Baptist and had always prayed in a damp squint for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic and so she prayed for things to happen for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns. Lorrie Moore Prayer 22

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