Lorrie Moore Quotes

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

Lorrie Moore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 13, 1957

Topics

FunnyNaturePeopleWritingWorld

We've won both the best and worst band in so many major magazines - we just get written off so much, but we don't care.

Andy Biersack

BestCareWorstBandGetOff

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

Stephen Mangan

InspirationalGoodTeacherSchoolHe

All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.

Simon Winchester

TimeBrokenRememberEarthForget

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

Robert Dallek

MedicalVotingAmericanTradition

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

ResponsibilityGenerationWillNext

'Beetlejuice' was a romp, man. 'Beetlejuice' was fun. I've never had so much fun in my life.

Michael Keaton

LifeManFunMy LifeNeverMuch

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

Lord Byron

HeartPowerWifeMeCommon Sense

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

Joshua Oppenheimer

GreatWorldThinkRealityCinema

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

Chris Tucker

DayPeopleGolfWeekYouDown

The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

Ashton Kutcher

DressBeardYouNeedYourSharper

Everybody is their own person.

Allen Iverson

PersonOwnEverybody

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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