Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Mooreis an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth13 January 1957
CityGlens Falls, NY
CountryUnited States of America
heartbreak agony exit
An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.
pain suffering fool
I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.
boots matter rooms
No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.
numbness done world
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.
love-you killers planets
Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly.
sinking-feeling doors missing
It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.
memories forget standing-out
I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.
sex believe ties
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.
opportunity bravery
She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.
longing
She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?
art love-is painting
Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
animal curiosity doe
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. For a reader to wonder about the autobiography in a fiction may be completely unavoidable and in fact may speak to the success of a particular narrative, though it may also speak to its failure.
vivid-imagination should turns
One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.
writing
Most things good for writing are bad for life.