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Quote by Lorrie Moore

“Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.”

Work

This book delves into the complexities of life in a small Indian village, focusing on the intersecting lives of its inhabitants. The narrative follows Tilo, a young woman who becomes entangled in a tragic event, reflecting on the societal and personal consequences of her actions and the broader issues of inequality and justice in her community. more

Author

Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore is an American writer renowned for her short stories. Her work is celebrated for its humor, satire, and profound insights into everyday life. Born on January 13, 1957, Moore graduated from Harvard University, where she began her writing career. more

Book:George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more

Source: George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more

“Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them, they had changed - they suddenly had more space or a tilt or a door that had not been there before. New people were milling around, the floors undulated, and the sun shone newly, strangely in the windows, or through the now blasted-open ceiling, or else it shone not at all, as if having fled the sky.”

People Ifs Dream Past Space Rooms Sun Doors Sky Changed Window Ceilings Blast Tilt

Author:Lorrie Moore

“The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.”

Thinking Giving Next Can Do Conscience Fellows Best Things

Book:The Complete Fairy Tales

Source: The Complete Fairy Tales

“Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply.”

Said Song Answers Love Is Solutions

Book:A Gate at the Stairs

Source: A Gate at the Stairs

“I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!”