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

Lorrie Moore

Mots clés childhood



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

Lorrie Moore

Mots clés 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

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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

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

Lorrie Moore

Mots clés love



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

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

Lorrie Moore

Mots clés 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

Mots clés love breakups sacrasm



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

Lorrie Moore

Mots clés 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

Mots clés life friends home living where-you-live



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