Lorrie Moore Quotes

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

Lorrie Moore

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• Goodbye

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• I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

  

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• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

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• I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

  

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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

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• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

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• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

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• I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

  

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• Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.

  

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• I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

  

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• If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

  

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• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

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• I kind of crave loneliness.

  

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• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  

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• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

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• As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.

  

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• What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.

  

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• The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

  

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• I'm lucky: I've got great photogenic eyes. You're up and running if you've got that and one brain cell to attach it to.

  

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• Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

  

  Lorrie Moore
  • World
  • Emotional
  • Goodbye