Quotes 41 till 60 of 97.
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Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
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Love is a fever, she said. And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.
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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
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Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
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Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
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My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
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No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
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No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
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Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.
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Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.
Net echt (2012) 172 -
One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
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One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
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Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.''
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People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh.
The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore (2010) 550 -
Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
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