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The constant happiness is curiosity.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
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He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
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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 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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