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She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.
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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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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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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
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Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.
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In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
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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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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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