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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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people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one
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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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She would live now, not read.
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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
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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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One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.
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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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Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
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Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.
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