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The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 94
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Wingham
Ontario
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Subtle
Kissing
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Engrossing
Kisses
Transforming
Fearless

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I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake.
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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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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She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.
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Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.
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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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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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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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Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance class.
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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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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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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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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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I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
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A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.
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Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.
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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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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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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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