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people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one
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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Now i no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.
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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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But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.
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Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.
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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.
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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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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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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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What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.
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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.
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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.
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And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.
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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
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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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Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?
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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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I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.
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