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One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
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I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.
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It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in books that I would find, for the next few years, my lovers. They were men, not boys. They were self-possessed and sardonic, with a ferocious streak in them, reserves of gloom.
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Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance class.
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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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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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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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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For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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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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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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people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one
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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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There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.
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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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There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.
Alice Munro
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.
Alice Munro
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.
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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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