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And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.
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And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.
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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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Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.
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The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
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There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.
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Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
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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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One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.
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As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous combustion, instant fornication, triumph of the senses. What possibilities men and women must see in each other to infer such dangers. Or, believing in the dangers, how often they must think about the possibilities.
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