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Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.
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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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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
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I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.
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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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