Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...

Lorrie Moore
Some Similar Quotes
  1. The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth. - Marty Rubin

  2. Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  3. Don't sign your namebetween worlds, surmountthe manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live. - Paul Celan

  4. To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal. - M. Clifford

  5. 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. - Alice Walker

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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