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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.
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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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