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  1. Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America

    From Charades: when she was younger she was a frustrated mother, so she is pleased when her children act as is they don't remember
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  2. Lorrie Moore _ Bark

    Denial, when one was accused, was a life force, and would trump any desire to confess. Perhaps this was the animal strength of the psychopathic brain. Or the psychopathy of the animal brain. An admission of guilt would knock the strength right out of you-making it easier for them to twist your arms behind you and put the handcuffs on.
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  3. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.
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  4. Lorrie Moore _ Anagrams

    It's two against one out here; we just keep taking turns.
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  5. Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America

    Let's make our own way,' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.
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  6. Lorrie Moore _ Bark

    Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.
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  7. Lorrie Moore _ Who Will Run the Frog

    I feel his lack of love for me.
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  8. Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America

    Una vida así requería una autoestima exagerada. Suponía tener cantidades excesivas de esperanza y desesperación, y ponerlas al tuntún, como países tercermundistas del continente de las emociones.
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  9. Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America

    This is Quilty's audition ritual: whenever he feels it is time for it, he calls upon himself to audition for love. He has no script, no reliable sense of stage, just a faceful of his heart's own greasepaint and a relentless need for applause.
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  10. Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs

    Irrigation sprinklers like the skeletons of brontosauruses. -Tassie Keltjin"
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  11. Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America: Stories

    This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in the people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. They played around and lied to their spouses. But they recycled their newspapers!
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  12. Lorrie Moore _ A Gate at the Stairs

    Pek çok eski Fransız tüccarı doğayla, özellikle de suyla öyle düşmanca ilişkiler içindeymiş ki isim verdikleri her şey kasvetlerini taşıyordu: bütün hoş tatil yerlerinin adları Fransızcadan Ölümün Kapısı, Dalgaların Mezarı ya da Şeytanın Gölü olarak çevrilmişti.
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