Lorrie Moore's response to the question, "Why is your novel about a 20-year-old girl?"

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Here’s the thing about being 20 years old. It’s actually the universal age of passion. It’s the age at which nature and form come together and your individual passion achieves its final shape and expression. When, later in life, when you’re older, you feel furious, it’s the fury of a 20-year-old. When you fall in love, it’s the love of a 20-year-old. It’s articulate, it’s visceral, it’s platonic. It’s the pure form of the emotion. When you observe the hypocrisies and injustices of the world, and feel shocked and betrayed by them, you’re actually being 20 again. And yet, you’re just shy of being able to drink. How perfectly completed, and thwarted, at the same time.

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fuck.

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    labarceloneta:thelittlemermaid:meaghano:oomb:...look forward to being 20 even more now.
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    pause time instead...wishing it away…
  4. justkitten reblogged this from nowayyahweh and added:
    i love this and i’m saying hell yea being 20
  5. nowayyahweh reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    and all i want is to be 21
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    I want to be 20 forever now
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    oomb: Here’s the thing about being 20 years old. It’s actually the universal age of passion. It’s the age at which...
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    is it? i’ve never felt less passionate about life. a seemingly neverending summer does this to you. i need a change of...
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    October 26th, and this will be me. :)
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    Lorrie Moore’s response to the question, “Why is your novel about a 20-year-old girl?” Here’s the thing about being 20...
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    “lyrical, funny, moving, and devastating” “textured, beguiling, and wise” = definitely reading it after med exams
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  31. lame-stamp reblogged this from unicornology and added:
    Huh. And to think I was kind of unhappy about turning twenty…
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    Ignoring the comment about drinking, as that’s irrelevant in Australia, if you were to replace all the 20s with 21s, I...
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    I am only 20-years-old for another month- egad.
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    Here’s the thing about being 20 years old. It’s actually the universal age of passion. It’s the age at which nature and...
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    hooray for next year?
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    totally stalking lovejoy’s profile and i found this and liked it a lot
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  45. justspeakeasy reblogged this from amandoline and added:
    Well that’s something to look forward to…
  46. mahfablife reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    I guess that would explain a lot.
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    God, if I passed 20 year old Dan, I wouldn’t recognize him. Shuffling back and forth passed the same few bookshelves at...
  48. amandoline reblogged this from tikayiyay and added:
    This seriously made me glad to be twenty. Twenty is infinitely better than nineteen. I don’t know why I was so against...
  49. megmess reblogged this from teapotsonfire and added:
    this makes me want to say FUCK YOU to everyone who tells me i’m “too young” and/or have “a lot of growing up to do.”
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  52. teapotsonfire reblogged this from bricorama and added:
    i really love lorrie moore. i’ve read everything she’s written. tao lin actually sent me one of her books.
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  55. bricorama reblogged this from thelittlemermaid and added:
    As someone who’s about to turn 20, I really, really like this.
  56. caitlinfaith reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    iiiiiiiiinteresting.
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    fuck. whenever I read something like this, I want...yell “bullshit”
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    “Here’s the thing about being 20 years old. It’s actually the universal age of passion. It’s the age at which nature and...
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    if this is being twenty I am more twenty at twenty-one than ever I have been before.
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    Lorrie Moore’s response to the question, “Why is your novel about a 20-year-old girl?”
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    aw lorrie moore is so cute, i wish she was my professor. reading this book is on my to-do list.
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    Here’s the thing about being 20 years old. It’s actually the universal age of passion. It’s the age at which nature and...
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    20-year-old me is not a self I want to be carrying around for the rest of my life. But then, I’m young; and I’m still...
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    well that makes me excited to turn 20 next August..
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    I LOVE LORRIE MOORE!
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