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People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
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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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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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When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one? If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try.
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There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.
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Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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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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I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
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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 unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.
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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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For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.
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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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I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.
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I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.
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She would live now, not read.
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Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
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Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.
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