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Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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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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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
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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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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.
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Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?
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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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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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We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
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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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Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.
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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
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Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
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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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I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
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But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.
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What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it.
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What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.
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