Lorrie Moore - Kind Quotes

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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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This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

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Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they coexisted with these states.

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But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles. If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.

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Certainly bitter emotions can fuel art—all kinds of emotions do.

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If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does seem to me to be a kind of animal impulse almost, a mammalian curiosity.

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This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.

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