Lorrie Moore Quotes

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For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Lorrie Moore
Often when she phoned her parents, they each got on separate extensions and just talked to each other. They discussed money problems and the other's faults with a ferocity they couldn't quite manage face to face.

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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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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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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.

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It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

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Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

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He had the kind of mustache a college roommate of hers used to say looked like it had crawled up to find a warm spot to die.

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One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

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The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.

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It had all the appeal of a bar of soap in a gas station.

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Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

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