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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 sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.
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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
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For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.
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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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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
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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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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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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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When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one? If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try.
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It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.
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The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
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And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.
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