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Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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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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Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.
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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
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Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?
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Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?
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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 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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And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.
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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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The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
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The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
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Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
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When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one? If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try.
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People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.
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Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.
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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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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
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There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.
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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
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