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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 read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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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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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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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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What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.
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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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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.
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Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.
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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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He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
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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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Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.
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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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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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I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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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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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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