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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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His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.
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Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.
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You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.
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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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Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
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The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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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 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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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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