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There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.
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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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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
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Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?
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Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them. Now, I do that work by filling notebooks.
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Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.
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The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
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People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.
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Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.
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What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it.
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It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.
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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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So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.
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She would live now, not read.
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Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.
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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 was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.
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