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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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The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.
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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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I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn't believe it anymore.
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It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.
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The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
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Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.
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Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.
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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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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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I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.
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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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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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If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.
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Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
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Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance class.
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