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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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She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.
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His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.
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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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Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
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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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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 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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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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People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.
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I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
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