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People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.
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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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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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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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I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
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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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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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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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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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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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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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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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people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one
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Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance class.
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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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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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And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.
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Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.
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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 conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
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