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And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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Warm
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.
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I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
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Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
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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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Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.
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