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Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.
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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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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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You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.
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Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn’t waste the milk.
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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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Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
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The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
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Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
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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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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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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
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