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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.
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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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