I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

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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