Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindness and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected change of the game. One could hold the cards oneself or not: they would land the same regardless. Lorrie Moore
The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.
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Marty Rubin
Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don't sign your namebetween worlds, surmountthe manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.
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Paul Celan
To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.
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M. Clifford
The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.
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Alice Walker
More Quotes By Lorrie Moore
This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
