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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
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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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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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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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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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Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
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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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I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.
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There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.
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Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance class.
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He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
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Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.
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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
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People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.
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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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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 felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.
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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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