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Lorrie Moore Quote: “A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.”

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

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.”

202. “Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “A veteran of the gender wars.”

203. “A veteran of the gender wars.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.”

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

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “I remember thinking that once there had been a time when women died of brain fevers caught from the prick of their hat pins, and that still, after all this time, it was hard being a girl, lugging around these bodies that were never right – wounds that needed fixing, heads that needed hats, corrections, corrections.”

205. “I remember thinking that once there had been a time when women died of brain fevers caught from the prick of their hat pins, and that still, after all this time, it was hard being a girl, lugging around these bodies that were never right – wounds that needed fixing, heads that needed hats, corrections, corrections.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “I used to think that those essentially happy and romantic novels that ended with a wedding were all wrong, that they had left out the most interesting part of the story.”

206. “I used to think that those essentially happy and romantic novels that ended with a wedding were all wrong, that they had left out the most interesting part of the story.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “Someday, like everybody, this man you truly love like no other is going to die. No matter how much you love him, you cannot save him. No matter how much you love: nothing, no one, lasts.”

207. “Someday, like everybody, this man you truly love like no other is going to die. No matter how much you love him, you cannot save him. No matter how much you love: nothing, no one, lasts.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “Yes,” she said. “‘I Been Working on the Railroad.’There’s just two things I’m worried about with that: the grammar and the use of slave labor.”

208. “Yes,” she said. “‘I Been Working on the Railroad.’There’s just two things I’m worried about with that: the grammar and the use of slave labor.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “They were in performance. They were performing their marriage at me.”

209. “They were in performance. They were performing their marriage at me.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “Amber was past tense. We were covering her inanimate face in the white sheet of was.”

210. “Amber was past tense. We were covering her inanimate face in the white sheet of was.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.”

211. “Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “When I go back to the places of the past, nothing is there anymore, as if I have made the whole thing up. It is as if life were just a dream placed in the window to cool, like a pie, then stolen.”

212. “When I go back to the places of the past, nothing is there anymore, as if I have made the whole thing up. It is as if life were just a dream placed in the window to cool, like a pie, then stolen.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “I feel his lack of love for me.”

213. “I feel his lack of love for me.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “Learn that you have a way of knowing each other which somehow slips out and beyond the ways you have of not knowing each other at all.”

214. “Learn that you have a way of knowing each other which somehow slips out and beyond the ways you have of not knowing each other at all.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “Don’t mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness.”

215. “Don’t mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “Imagine a wife and a mistress sharing the same toothbrush forever and ever, never knowing.”

216. “Imagine a wife and a mistress sharing the same toothbrush forever and ever, never knowing.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “There are lots of people in this world, Moss, but you can’t be in love with them all.”

217. “There are lots of people in this world, Moss, but you can’t be in love with them all.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “You live if you dance to the voice that ails you.”

218. “You live if you dance to the voice that ails you.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “You have everything,” she said to Number One. “You have too much: money, power, women.” It was absurd to talk about these things in a place like Cleveland. But then the world was always small, no matter what world it was, and you just had to go ahead and say things about it.”

219. “You have everything,” she said to Number One. “You have too much: money, power, women.” It was absurd to talk about these things in a place like Cleveland. But then the world was always small, no matter what world it was, and you just had to go ahead and say things about it.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “And yet the deprivation of her intimacy had made a small dent in his heart, and in his breathing, and in the hard candy of his eyes. The thought of her was everywhere but nowhere – an omniscient narrator.”

220. “And yet the deprivation of her intimacy had made a small dent in his heart, and in his breathing, and in the hard candy of his eyes. The thought of her was everywhere but nowhere – an omniscient narrator.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “Music ultimately left him unstirred. Like a god irritated with his own tinkerings. Despite his talent, or perhaps because of it, he heard only the machinery, the clanking and spitting. He felt nothing. No compassion.”

221. “Music ultimately left him unstirred. Like a god irritated with his own tinkerings. Despite his talent, or perhaps because of it, he heard only the machinery, the clanking and spitting. He felt nothing. No compassion.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “Why not admit history’s power to divide and destroy? Why attach ourselves to the age-old stories in the belief that they are truer than the new ones? By living in the past, you always know what comes next, and that robs you of surprises. It exhausts and warps the mind. We are lucky simply to be alive together; why get differentiating and judgmental about who is here among us? Thank God there is anyone at all.”

222. “Why not admit history’s power to divide and destroy? Why attach ourselves to the age-old stories in the belief that they are truer than the new ones? By living in the past, you always know what comes next, and that robs you of surprises. It exhausts and warps the mind. We are lucky simply to be alive together; why get differentiating and judgmental about who is here among us? Thank God there is anyone at all.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “You can wake from one dream only to find yourself plunged into yet another, like some endless rosary of the mind. When that happens, it is hard to glimpse what is not dream; the waking, undreamed world flies by you, in rushing flashes of light and air, in loud, quick, dangerous spaces like those between the cars of a train. There is nothing you can do. You walk in the sleep of yourself and wait. You wait for the train to pass.”

223. “You can wake from one dream only to find yourself plunged into yet another, like some endless rosary of the mind. When that happens, it is hard to glimpse what is not dream; the waking, undreamed world flies by you, in rushing flashes of light and air, in loud, quick, dangerous spaces like those between the cars of a train. There is nothing you can do. You walk in the sleep of yourself and wait. You wait for the train to pass.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “But I traffic a little in ‘conspiracy theories’ as we used to understand them, ones that put groups and systems back into the situations where individuals were taking the rap.”

224. “But I traffic a little in ‘conspiracy theories’ as we used to understand them, ones that put groups and systems back into the situations where individuals were taking the rap.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “I was already becoming a woman who sized up another one fast – I was becoming typical.”

225. “I was already becoming a woman who sized up another one fast – I was becoming typical.”

— Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore Quote: “To know something you had to be able to go inside and feel, then step outside and look, and then do that again: go inside, feel, then outside and look. You had to do it twice. That was knowledge. Two in a row.”

226. “To know something you had to be able to go inside and feel, then step outside and look, and then do that again: go inside, feel, then outside and look. You had to do it twice. That was knowledge. Two in a row.”

— Lorrie Moore

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