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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.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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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 unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.
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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
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She would live now, not read.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn’t waste the milk.
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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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You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.
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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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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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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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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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