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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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Journalist
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It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.
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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
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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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She would live now, not read.
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And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?
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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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If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.
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people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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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 want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
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You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.
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For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.
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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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I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.
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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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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.
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One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.
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