Lorrie Moore Quotes - Page 6

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• Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.

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  Writing, Thinking, Identity

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• I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.

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  Endurance, Want

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• We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

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  Twenties, Metaphor, Possession

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.263, Vintage

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• I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me.

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  Girl, Voice, Dumb

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Who Will Run the Frog Hospital”, p.6, Vintage

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• This was love, I supposed, and eventually I would come to know it. Someday it would choose me and I would come to know its spell, for long stretches and short, two times, maybe three, and then quite probably it would choose me never again.

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  Two, Long, Three

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.91, Vintage

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• Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

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  Second Best, Settling

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.81, Faber & Faber

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• It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

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  Girl, Creative, Being A Girl

  "Lorrie Moore: America's first lady of darkness and mirth". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2010.

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• No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.

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  Boots, Matter, Rooms

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Sep 11, 2014

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• An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.

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  Heartbreak, Agony, Exit

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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.

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  Tired, Sleep, Fate

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.36, Vintage

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

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  Needs, Lines, Mood

  "'I would like to live in that year forever.'". Interview with Michael Hafford, logger.believermag.com. April 24, 2014.

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• If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.

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  Long, Projects, Approach

  "'I would like to live in that year forever.'". Interview with Michael Hafford, logger.believermag.com. April 24, 2014.

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• I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

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  Thinking, Stories, Environment

  "'I would like to live in that year forever.'". Interview with Michael Hafford, logger.believermag.com. April 24, 2014.

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