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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.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
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I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
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Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.
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Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
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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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She would live now, not read.
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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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Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?
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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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I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.
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The constant happiness is curiosity.
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This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.
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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
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She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.
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