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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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A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.
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This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.
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When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one? If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try.
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She would live now, not read.
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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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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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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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Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
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In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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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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The constant happiness is curiosity.
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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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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 have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.
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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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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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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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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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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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