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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.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?
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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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When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one? If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try.
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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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Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
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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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The constant happiness is curiosity.
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Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?
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There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.
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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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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 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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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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Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
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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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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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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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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
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