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I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'


Lorrie Moore

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THOMAS MOORE It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
THOMAS MOORE Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out t...
GEORGE MOORE Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
GEORGE MOORE With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, ...
THOMAS MOORE A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
GEORGE MOORE No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
GEORGE MOORE Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
GEORGE MOORE The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
BRIAN MOORE The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.
MARCIA MOORE Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
THOMAS MOORE Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time, Soon as the w...
THOMAS MOORE While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
THOMAS MOORE Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food ...
THOMAS MOORE Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby tr...
THOMAS MOORE Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MOORE This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, T...
THOMAS MOORE Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
THOMAS MOORE