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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
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When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one? If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try.
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It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.
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For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.
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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.
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I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.
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They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.
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I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.
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One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.
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The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
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There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.
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Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.
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