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Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance class.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
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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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I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
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I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn't believe it anymore.
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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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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
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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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people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one
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He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
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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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Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?
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I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.
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The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
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Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
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She would live now, not read.
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The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
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I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.
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