If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your own hand. Aloneness was the air in your tires, the wind in your hair. You didn't have to go looking for it with open arms. With open arms, you fell off the bike: I was drinking my wine too quickly. Lorrie Moore
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  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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