395 Quotes by Lorrie Moore

in an attempt at extroversion, she had worn a tunic with large slices of watermelon depicted on the front. What had she been thinking of?

Ever since Albert was denied promotion to full-professor rank, his articles on Flannery O'Connor (“A Good Man Really Is Hard to Find,” “Everything That Rises Must Indeed Converge,” and “The Totemic South: The Violent Actually Do Bear It Away!”) failing to meet with collegial acclaim, he has become determined to serve others, passing out the notices and memoranda, arranging the punch and cookies at various receptions.

You are too gifted a person to be living in a state that borders on North Dakota.

Küçük bir sinek vızlayıp kulağımın yanından geçti, sonra kayboldu. Daha önce hiç Noel'de sinek görmemiştim; Sanat 102 dersinde hissetmemiz öğretildiği gibi, iki tanıdık şeyin beklenmedik şekilde yan yana gelmesinin gerçeküstülüğünü hissederek ona vurdum. Gelecek bu olacaktı.

Sarah'nın gülmek yerine, "Komik," ya da gülümsemek yerine, "İlginç," ya da "Aptal zırva geri zekâlının tekisin," demek yerine, "Şey, sanırım bu ondan biraz daha karmaşık," diyen kadınlardan olmasından korktum. Öyle insanların yanında ne yapacağımı hiç bilemezdim, özellikle de siz konuştuktan sonra gizemli bir şekilde "Anlıyorum," diyenlerin. Genellikle sadece susardım.

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.