In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy, ' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you might start to dribble from the mouth, to howl peevishly at the moon. You might start quoting your mother, out loud and with conviction. You might lose your friends to the most uninspired of deaths. You might one day wake up and find yourself teaching at a community college; there will have been nothing to warn you. You might say things to your students like, There is only one valid theme in literature: Life will disappoint you. Lorrie Moore
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More Quotes By Lorrie Moore
  1. This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
  2. They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
  3. 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.
  4. A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
  5. 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.
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