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Book: Birds of America
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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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Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America
Let's make our own way,' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.
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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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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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Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America
In general, people were not road maps. People were not hieroglyphs or books. They were not stories. A person was a collection of accidents. A person was an infinite pile of rocks with things growing underneath.
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Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America
I'm going to marry you till you puke.
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Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America
One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in isolation, lurched and spazzed, sent them spinning fizzly back into empty, padded corners, disconnected and alone.
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Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America
Her voice was husky, vibrating, slightly flat, coming in just under each note like a saucer under a cup.
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Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America
Are you anywhere near Champaign-Urbana?""No.""I went there once. I thought from its name that it would be a different kind of place. I kept saying to myself, 'Champagne, urbah na, champagne, urbah na! Champagne! Urbana'" He sighed. "It was just this thing in the middle of a field."
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Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America
The functional disenchantment, the sweet habit of each other, had begun to put lines around her mouth, lines that looked like quotation marks--as if everything she said had already been said before...{the cat} was accustomed to much nestling and appreciation and drips from the faucet, though sometimes she would vanish outside, and they would not see her for days, only to spy her later, in the yard, dirty and matted, chomping a vole or eating old snow.
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Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America
Like true friends, they take no hardy or elegant stance loosely choreographed from some broad perspective. They get right in there and mutter "Jesus Christ!" and shake their heads.
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Lorrie Moore _ Birds of America
The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally.
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