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Lorrie Moore Quotes: Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.
         

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.


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Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.



This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.



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.

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.



Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.



A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.



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

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



They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.



The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'



She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.



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If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.





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As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know this. It’s what they try so hard to avoid.



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We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.



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The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.



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This is the best world that we live in To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow or beg or to get a man's own It is the worst world that ever was known.



Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.

Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.



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Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.



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You can do a movie for Disney or not. People will still ask you inappropriate questions. So in order to answer it, do I feel like there's a difference in promoting it? Apparently not.



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Any action is better than no action at all.



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My mom is my heart. She was a rock for me even though she was not around as much as dad.



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I'm the type of guy that I wear my heart on my sleeve. If I'm in a good or bad mood, then everybody knows it.




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This page presents the quote "Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.". Author of this quote is Lorrie Moore. This quote is about bitterness, confused, hanging out, laundry, forgiveness, down the road, art,.