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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
Alice Munro
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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.
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For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.
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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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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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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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I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.
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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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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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Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
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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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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
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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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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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I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
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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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Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.
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Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.
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