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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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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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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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So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.
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