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You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.
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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
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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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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
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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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Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn’t waste the milk.
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