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Lorrie Moore
Top 10 Best Quotes
“All the world's a stage we're going through.”
“I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm doing by how many people remember; it's like the old fantasy of attending your own funeral: You get to see who your friends are, get to see who shows up. ”
“They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.”
“I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.”
“I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it. ”
“Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.”
“But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles. If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.”
“Life is sad. Here is someone.”
“Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce”
“The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you’re already male to begin with poses no particular problem. But if you’re anyone else, your whole sexual identity gets dragged into the principal’s office: “So what’s this I hear about you prancing around, masquerading as a woman?” You are answerless. You are sitting on your hands. You are praying for your breasts to grow, your hair to perk up.”
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birthdays, faithfulness, love, life, relationships, photography, lovers