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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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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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There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.
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Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.
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Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn’t waste the milk.
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Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.
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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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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake.
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I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.
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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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The constant happiness is curiosity.
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I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
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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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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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People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.
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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
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The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
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I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.
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Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.
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