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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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It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.
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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
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I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.
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I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.
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Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.
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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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The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
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There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.
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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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So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.
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I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake.
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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 felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.
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I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
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Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance class.
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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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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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