Lorrie Moore Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this, it would turn away at something greater, then more and more until your heart stayed averted, immobile, your imagination redistributed away from the world and back only toward the bad maps of yourself, the sour pools of your own pulse, your own tiny, mean, and pointless wants.

  Lorrie Moore

  Heart, Mean, Blood

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Birds of America: Stories”, p.136, Vintage

• 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.

  Lorrie Moore

  Country, Children, Real

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jul 17, 2011

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

  Lorrie Moore

  Vivid Imagination, Should, Turns

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.260, Faber & Faber

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