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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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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In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
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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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Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down] was every last thing, every layer of speech and thought, stroke of light on bark or walls, every smell, pothole, pain, crack, delusion, held still and held together-radiant, everlasting.
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And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.
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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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Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.
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There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.
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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
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It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.
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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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I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.
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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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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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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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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
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