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Book: Like Life
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Lorrie Moore _ Like Life
He stepped back, away from her. He shook his head in disbelief. "You know, I shouldn't try to go out with career women. You're all stricken. A guy can really tell what life has done to you. I do better with women who have part-time jobs." "Oh, yes?" said Zoe. She had once read an article entitled "Professional Women and the Demographics of Grief." Or no, it was a poem: If there were a lake, the moonlight would dance across it in conniptions. She remembered that line. But perhaps the title was "The Empty House: Aesthetics of Bareness." Or maybe "Space Gypsies: Girls in Academe." She had forgotten.
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Lorrie Moore _ Like Life
But I keep thinking love should be like a tree. You look at trees and they've got bumps and scars from tumors, infestations, what have you, but they're still growing. Despite the bumps and bruises, they're--straight.
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Lorrie Moore _ Like Life
There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
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Lorrie Moore _ Like Life
She would turn from him in bed, her hands under the pillow, the digital clock peeling back the old skins of numbers.
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Lorrie Moore _ Like Life
She should stay here with him, unorphan him with love's unorphaning, live wise and simple in a world monstrous enough for years of whores and death, and poems of whores and death, so monstrous how could one live in it at all? One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
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Lorrie Moore _ Like Life
Oh," she said. "I wasn't going to ask, but then you never said anything about it, so I thought I'd ask.""How about you?""Not me," said Odette. She had a poem about marriage. It began, Marriage is the death you want to die, and in front of audiences she never read it with much conviction. Usually she swung her foot back and forth through the whole thing.
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Lorrie Moore _ Like Life
You were never to say you weren't "fine, thank you - and yourself?" You were supposed to be Heidi. You were supposed to lug goat milk up the hills and not think twice. Heidi did not complain. Heidi did not do things like stand in front of the new IBM photocopier saying, "If this fucking Xerox machine breaks on me one more time, I'm going to slit my wrists.
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Lorrie Moore _ Like Life
So I needed to be womanised. I was losing my sheen.
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Lorrie Moore _ Like Life
All this wandering that you do," he said, leaning in the window, his face white as a cream cheese, his scar the carved zigzag of a snowmobile across a winter lake. Wind blew handsomely through his hair. "How will anyone ever get close to you?""I don't know," she said. She shook his hand through the window and then put on her gloves.
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Lorrie Moore _ Like Life
it would be a combination of comfort and surprise an audience might appreciate.
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Lorrie Moore _ Like Life
Bucks, doe - thank God everything boils down to money, I always say.""During mating season the doe constructs a bed for herself, and then she urinates all around the outside of it. That's how she gets her mate.""So that's it," murmured Odette. "I was always peeing in the bed.
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Lorrie Moore _ Like Life
The turkeys I eat are raised on farms. They're different. They've signed on the dotted line.
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