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He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.
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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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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 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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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
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One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.
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What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it.
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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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You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.
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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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They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.
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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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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous combustion, instant fornication, triumph of the senses. What possibilities men and women must see in each other to infer such dangers. Or, believing in the dangers, how often they must think about the possibilities.
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The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
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I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn't believe it anymore.
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People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
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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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