It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe.

Lorrie Moore

Stichwörter: childhood



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The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally.

Lorrie Moore

Stichwörter: marriage



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I cried for everyone and for all the scrabbly, funny love one sent out into the world like some hit song that enters space and bounds off to another galaxy, a tune so pretty you think the words are true, you do!

Lorrie Moore

Stichwörter: love



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I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.

Lorrie Moore

Stichwörter: prayer



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They looked like frogs who’d been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs.

Lorrie Moore

Stichwörter: love



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Philosophize: you are a mistress, part of a great hysterical you mean historical tradition.

Lorrie Moore


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Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.

Lorrie Moore

Stichwörter: life jokes comedians



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

Lorrie Moore

Stichwörter: love breakups sacrasm



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

Lorrie Moore

Stichwörter: shelter hide protect



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But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.

Lorrie Moore

Stichwörter: life friends home living where-you-live



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